Looking for Service Mark Symbol?

[Vincent Snyder]

Looking for the Service Mark Symbol, it looks like the Trademark symbol but
with a "S" instead of the "T".

This is used by the legal profession.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Doug Robbins]

According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, "A service mark
is any word, name, symbol, device, or any combination, used, or intended to
be used, in commerce, to identify and distinguish the services of one
provider from services provided by others, and to indicate the source of the
services. "

See http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/tac/tmfaq.htm#DefineServiceMark

According to the following site

http://www.sei.cmu.edu/about/legal-trademarks.html

it's just a superscripted SM.

You can easily create an autotext/autocorrect entry for it if you need to.
An autocorrect that replaced sm followed by a space may be OK as there are
not too many words (though there are a few) that end is sm. Maybe replace
smm would be better as it would not deprive you from having an orgasm (in
your text of course) if you wanted one.
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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

For some reason this symbol is not present in common Unicode fonts. You can
find it at 2120 in the Letterlike Symbols subset of Arial Unicode MS, but,
as Doug points out, it's just a superscripted SM, which might be a better
choice. In either case, you could save it as an AutoCorrect or AutoText
entry for ease of insertion. Or, if you choose the font character, you can
assign a keyboard shortcut to it.