There are a lot of existing products names and trademarks in Hydro, and certainly more to come, therefore it is important that we operate with common guidelines to ensure a uniform way of communicating to contribute to a streamlined brand and trademark portfolio throughout the company. This will increase the strength of our brand and acquire a much more widespread reputation.

Through consistent use of trademarks, we will also strengthen and protect our product and services in all territories and all markets where Hydro is present.

Such use of trademarks gives an important signal to the outside world that Hydro consider these marks to be its own and indicates that we will protect them. It will also reduce prosecution and renewal costs and third-party infringement risks/ensure freedom of use.

For future product naming there are two options available for Hydro products and services:

Default option – a descriptive name

No need for registration - ™

Hydro + a descriptive / generic name (+scale) ™
When Hydro is used together with a descriptive / generic title, describing the type of the product and its characteristic’s (and scale), trademark can be used without registration

Exception option – a unique name

Must be registered - ®

A destinctive / unique name ®
When Hydro is used with a distinctive / unique name (with a commercially driven need for a unique name and a budget to market the name) it needs to be registered as a trademark. Availability searches have to be conducted by Intellectual Property Department prior to deciding the name.

Hy-names
Ex.: HyCast, HyCot, HyCrush, HyBeam.
To make the HY-names more powerful as trademarks and more visible in the market, product names starting with HY is only to be used when the product or service is considered a unique name and a trademark is registered.

What do I do, if I want to name a new product/service?