Trademark Policy

Trademark ownership, brand usage, and infringement reporting

Effective Date: September 1, 2026 | Last Updated: September 1, 2026

Unified Athletes | Colorado, USA | Legal Contact: info@UnifiedAthletics.com

This Trademark Policy explains how Unified Athletes names, logos, service marks, slogans, program names, designs, and other brand identifiers may be used. It also provides a process for reporting suspected trademark infringement, impersonation, counterfeiting, or confusing brand use.

1. Unified Athletes Marks

Unified Athletes, its logos, stylized designs, platform names, program names, slogans, icons, product names, service names, certification marks, campaign identities, and other source-identifying elements may be trademarks, service marks, trade names, or trade dress of Unified Athletes or affiliated rights holders, whether registered or unregistered.

Use of a mark on a website does not mean the mark is unprotected merely because a registration symbol is absent. Rights may arise through use, registration, contract, or other law.

2. No Implied License

Access to Unified Athletes services does not grant a license to use Unified Athletes trademarks. Except as expressly permitted by this Policy, a brand guideline, a partner agreement, or written permission, users may not reproduce, display, modify, distribute, register, sell, license, or commercially use Unified Athletes marks.

3. Permitted Referential Use

You may make truthful, non-misleading references to Unified Athletes when reasonably necessary to identify our company, service, or a legitimate relationship, provided that the use:

  • Does not imply sponsorship, certification, endorsement, partnership, affiliation, or approval that does not exist.
  • Does not use our logo or stylized mark without permission unless applicable law clearly permits the use.
  • Uses only as much of the mark as reasonably necessary for identification.
  • Does not place our mark more prominently than your own brand in a way that causes confusion.
  • Does not disparage, distort, animate, alter, recolor, combine, abbreviate, or create derivative logos without permission.
  • Complies with any current written brand standards supplied by Unified Athletes.

4. Prohibited Uses

Without prior written permission, do not:

  • Use Unified Athletes marks in a company name, product name, service name, social media handle, app name, event name, team name, domain name, metatag, keyword identifier, or other source identifier likely to cause confusion.
  • Register or attempt to register a Unified Athletes mark, confusingly similar mark, domain name, username, corporate name, or trade name.
  • Use Unified Athletes marks on merchandise, apparel, collectibles, NFTs, digital goods, promotional items, signage, vehicles, advertisements, sponsorship materials, or packaging.
  • Create altered, combined, mirrored, distorted, animated, abbreviated, pluralized, or phonetic variants that may suggest affiliation.
  • Use marks in connection with unlawful, deceptive, defamatory, discriminatory, hateful, adult, unsafe, or reputationally harmful content.
  • Use Unified Athletes branding to impersonate the company, staff, mentors, athletes, sponsors, partners, or authorized representatives.
  • Use Unified Athletes marks as part of a misleading endorsement, testimonial, certification, badge, seal, or credential.

5. Partner, Sponsor, School, and University Use

Sponsors, schools, universities, teams, leagues, mentors, nonprofits, media organizations, vendors, affiliates, and other partners may use Unified Athletes branding only to the extent authorized by a written agreement or current brand guideline. Permission is limited to the approved purpose, media, territory, term, and format and may be revoked or modified consistent with the applicable agreement.

Co-branded materials should clearly identify the parties and should not imply broader rights than the relationship actually provides.

6. Athlete Use and Personal Branding

Athletes may truthfully state participation in Unified Athletes programs when accurate. Participation does not automatically grant a right to use Unified Athletes logos for commercial endorsements, merchandise, sponsorship packages, paid advertisements, or product branding. Athletes must separately comply with school, conference, league, NIL, agent, sponsor, and endorsement requirements that may apply to them.

7. Certification, Badges, and Achievement Marks

Certificates, badges, seals, achievement graphics, mentor designations, ambassador marks, and program credentials may be used only by individuals or organizations that have earned or been granted them, and only in the form and context authorized. They may not be altered, transferred, sold, or used after revocation or expiration.

8. Merchandise and Promotional Products

No person may manufacture, sell, distribute, print, embroider, engrave, mint, tokenize, or otherwise apply Unified Athletes branding to physical or digital goods without written authorization. Authorized merchandise vendors must comply with approved artwork, quality, sourcing, royalty, reporting, and distribution requirements.

9. Domain Names, Social Accounts, Apps, and Search Advertising

Users may not register or use domains, subdomains, application names, social handles, marketplace listings, paid-search identifiers, or account names that falsely suggest Unified Athletes ownership or authorization. Nominative use in ordinary descriptive text may be permitted where it is truthful and non-confusing.

10. Third-Party Trademarks

Third-party trademarks appearing through Unified Athletes belong to their respective owners. Their appearance does not necessarily imply endorsement, sponsorship, affiliation, or partnership. Users are responsible for obtaining rights to third-party trademarks they upload or use.

Unified Athletes does not grant permission to use professional league, team, school, sponsor, brand, event, or other third-party marks unless Unified Athletes is specifically authorized to sublicense those rights in writing.

11. Trademark Infringement and Impersonation Reports

To report suspected infringement, counterfeiting, cybersquatting, impersonation, or confusing use, contact info@UnifiedAthletics.com and provide:

  • Your name, organization, and contact information.
  • The mark or brand right you own or are authorized to enforce.
  • Registration information, if applicable, or a description of unregistered rights.
  • The location of the disputed use, including links, screenshots, account names, listings, files, or other identifying information.
  • An explanation of why the use is likely to cause confusion, deception, dilution, counterfeiting, or other legal harm.
  • A statement that the report is accurate and submitted in good faith.
  • Your electronic or physical signature.

12. Enforcement and Remedies

Unified Athletes may investigate suspected misuse and may request correction, takedown, transfer, account restriction, suspension, termination, or other appropriate remedies. We may preserve evidence and cooperate with service providers, registrars, marketplaces, social networks, law enforcement, courts, or other authorities when appropriate.

Nothing in this Policy limits any legal or equitable remedies available to Unified Athletes or other rights holders.

13. Permission Requests

Requests to use a Unified Athletes trademark should identify the requested mark, proposed use, audience, media, territory, duration, size and placement, whether the use is commercial, and any co-branding. Send requests to info@UnifiedAthletics.com. No permission is granted unless confirmed in writing by an authorized representative.

14. Changes to This Trademark Policy

We may revise this Trademark Policy and related brand guidelines as our brands, programs, registrations, partnerships, and services evolve. Users should follow the version in effect when the mark is used.

15. Contact Us

Trademark reports, licensing requests, and brand-use questions may be sent to info@UnifiedAthletics.com. Unified Athletes is located in Colorado, USA.