Stanford’s trademarks (“Marks”) are valuable assets and our rights in these assets are protected by trademark and other intellectual property laws.  The Marks may only be used in accordance with Stanford’s policies described below.  

Policies:

• Administrative Guide 1.5.4:  Use of Stanford trademarks and images

• Administrative Guide 1.4.1: Use of Marks in connection with academic and business relationships with third parties

• Administrative Guide 1.5.1:  Use of Marks in connection with political, campaign and lobbying activities

• Administrative Guide 8.2:  Use of Marks in connection with events and conferences

• https://trademarks.stanford.edu/name-use-guidelines:  Additional guidelines for use of Stanford’s Marks by faculty, staff, students, alumni and third parties.

• https://identity.stanford.edu/:  Stanford University Design Guidelines and Identity Toolkit

• http://ucomm.stanford.edu/policies/photo-film-policy.html:  Use of Marks in connection with photographs or film

• https://ucomm.stanford.edu/policies/namerequest.html:  Requests to use Marks in advertisements, marketing materials, press releases, movies or television:

• https://ucomm.stanford.edu/policies/url-name-policy.html:  Use of Marks in three-part Internet host names within the Stanford.EDU domain

• https://ucomm.stanford.edu/policies/social-media.html:  Use of Marks in social media

• Research Policy Handbook Chapter 9:   Use of Marks in connection with Stanford intellectual property

• http://med.stanford.edu/identity.html:  Stanford Medicine Design Guidelines and Identity Toolkit

Resources:

Please contact Trademark Licensing at trademarks@stanford.edu if you have questions about (i) Stanford’s trademark licensing program, (ii) use of Stanford’s Marks on merchandise, or (iii) use of Stanford’s Marks by vendors, business partners, research and other sponsors, industrial affiliates, foundations and other non-Stanford enterprises.

Other questions about use of the Marks may be directed as follows: