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    You would want to use them because you have a symbol (artistic, text-based, or otherwise) that you want to be recognized and protected by the laws that govern registered trademarks and copyrights by a given country.

    If you fail to trademark your symbol and present it without such designation(TM or R) you could potentially open yourself up to IP theft. And if you never officially registered the symbol you would have had no grounds for protection/retaliation under most patent/trademark/copyright laws.

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    • You don't have to add TM to have trademark protection (but it helps)ribit
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