These Trademark and Logo Usage Requirements ("Usage Requirements") set forth FICO's rules for third parties using or referring to FICO's brand names, trademarks, service marks, product and service names, logos, and slogans (collectively referred to as "FICO Marks"). They apply to all non-FICO parties using or making reference to FICO Marks unless a separate license agreement applies. Other requirements apply to FICO licensees and are set forth in a specific license agreement.
General
FICO's Marks are FICO's intellectual property and are important and valuable assets of the company. Any use of FICO Marks that is inconsistent with these Usage Requirements, or other unauthorized use of FICO Marks or marks that are confusingly similar to FICO Marks, may violate FICO's legal rights. FICO appreciates your compliance with these Usage Requirements and will take steps to protect the FICO Marks against improper use and infringement. FICO reserves the right to object to any use of FICO Marks (or anything confusingly similar to a FICO Mark) that FICO deems to be unlawful under the circumstances, even if that use is not expressly prohibited by these Usage Requirements.
Fair Use of FICO Marks
You may refer to FICO products and services by their appropriate FICO Mark (other than logos and stylized marks), so long as such references (a) are truthful, fair, and not misleading, and (b) comply with these Usage Requirements.
FICO Logos and Stylized Marks
You should never use FICO logos or stylizations of FICO Marks unless you have a license agreement or other explicit written permission from FICO to do so.
Proper Use of Trademark Symbols
Always use the proper trademark symbol (TM, sm, or ®) immediately following at least the first reference to the trademark on any page.
The exception to the above rule is when the "FICO" name is used as our company name, as opposed to an identifier of one of our products or services. In this case you should not use the ® symbol.
Examples of Correct Uses of Some FICO Marks
The following examples illustrate the correct use of ™, (sm), or ® and the use of the trademark as an adjective with the correct generic noun or phrase:
FICO™ Blaze Advisor® business rules management system
FICO® Scores
FICO™ Falcon® Fraud Manager
myFICO® service
FICO® TRIAD® adaptive control system
Check the list of FICO trademarks below to verify how the FICO Marks should appear.
Acknowledgment of Trademark Rights
Assuming your use of a FICO trademark is permitted, you should always acknowledge that FICO owns the trademark. If it is not clear from the context of the use of the FICO Mark (e.g., FICO® scores), you should include a separate acknowledgment. The acknowledgment should appear in legible type in any materials in which a FICO Mark appears. The following language is acceptable:
"FICO and [Insert FICO Marks used] are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Fair Isaac Corporation."
Materials that mention FICO only:
"FICO is a registered trademark of Fair Isaac Corporation."
Remember that the inclusion of a trademark symbol and acknowledgment does not turn an improper use of a FICO Mark into a proper use or entitle you to use any FICO Mark in a way prohibited by law or otherwise not allowed under these Usage Requirements.
Prohibitions
- Do not use any FICO Mark, and do not adopt a "look and feel" with respect to any publication or Web site, in a way that might cause confusion about the relationship between FICO and any other party or any non-FICO product or service (e.g., as to source, origin, sponsorship, or endorsement).
- Do not incorporate any FICO Mark into your own product names, service names, trademarks, logos, or company names, and do not adopt marks or logos that are confusingly similar to any FICO Marks.
- Do not use or reproduce any FICO logos unless you have explicit written permission to do so.
- Do not use any FICO Marks as a meta tag for your web pages.
- Do not use any FICO Mark or any confusingly similar words as your domain names or as parts of your domain names.
- Do not use any FICO Mark or any confusingly similar words as the alphabetic equivalent of a phone number (e.g., 1-800-GET-FICO).
- Do not use FICO Marks as Internet search "keywords" or in any other way that is intended to or has the effect of directing traffic to a non-FICO Web site.
- Do not state or imply that you have or are claiming rights in any FICO Mark.
- Do not use FICO Marks in any improper way that would disparage FICO, its subsidiaries, its products, or its services (i.e., unfair competition, false or misleading, etc.).
Questions
Any questions regarding these Usage Requirements should be directed to webmanager@fico.com.
Version and Right to Make Changes
These Trademark and Logo Usage Requirements were originally posted on October 15, 2003. FICO reserves the right to change these Usage Requirements at any time by posting a revised version on this Web site.
FICO Trademarks in the United States and/or Other Countries
300-850® score (words and logo)
ActiView® service
Best Next Action™
Connected Decisions™
Context Vectors™ technology
CreditDesk® origination and underwriting software
CreditSync® service
CustomerHD™ segmentation
Data Spiders™ module
Fair Isaac® (words and logo)
Fair Isaac® Click Conversion Score™
Fair Isaac® Korea®
FICO® Action Segments
FICO® Advanced Models
FICO® Analytic Services
FICO® Bankruptcy Scores
FICO® Basel II Analytic Services
FICO® Blaze Advisor® business rules management system
FICO® Capstone® Decision Manager
FICO® Card Alert Service
FICO® Collection Scores
FICO® Contact Builder
FICO® Credit Capacity Index™
FICO® Custom Collections Models
FICO® Custom Credit Bureau Models
FICO® Custom Decision Optimization
FICO® Customer Data Integration
FICO® Debt Manager™ solution
FICO® Expansion® score
FICO® Expert Models
FICO® Express Models
FICO™ Falcon® Compromise Score
FICO™ Falcon® Express
FICO™ Falcon® Fraud Manager
FICO™ Falcon® ID solution
FICO™ Falcon® Rules Recommendation Service
FICO™ Falcon® Transfer
FICO® Industry Scores
FICO® Insurance Risk Scores
FICO® LiquidCredit® service
FICO™ MIRA™ Claims Advisor for ReservingFICO® NextGen Score
FICO™ Payment Optimizer® solution
FICO™ PlacementsPlus® service
FICO® Precision Marketing Manager
FICO® PreScore® service
FICO™ Recovery Management System™ solution
FICO® Retail Action Manager
FICO® Revenue Scores
FICO® Score
FICO® Score Delivery
FICO® Score Simulator
FICO® Scores on Statements™
FICO® Segmentation Models
FICO® Small Business Scoring Servicesm (SBSSsm) solution
FICO® Transaction Scores
FICO TRIAD® adaptive control system
FICO.org® service
Identity Theft Security® service
It's just a smarter way to do business® (tagline)
Make Every Decision Count™
myFICO® service
OfferPoint™ transaction analytics solution
Peacock™ technology
RMS™ solution
RMS NG™ solution
RoamEx® Roamer Data Exchanger
ScoreNet® network
ScoreWare® software
Security in the Cloud™
See how lenders see yousm (tagline)
Segmentation ART™ module
State Compliance Decision Manager™ solution
Strategy Machine® solution
StrategyWare® decision engine
The Score That Matters™
TreeView™ software
UniScoresm service
Vectus® software
Vista® account management risk score service
Questions about FICO trademarks and their usage may be referred to webmanager@fico.com.