Trademark Notice and Usage Guidelines

This Notice identifies the trademarks of Itogai LLC (“itogai”), states their status, and sets out how they may and may not be used by anyone who is not itogai. It is incorporated into the Customer Terms of Service by reference.

1. The marks

itogai owns seven trademarks.

Network Health and Signals are feature names and are not trademarks. They carry no symbol, and nothing in this Notice applies to them.

2. Status

All seven marks are unregistered. Each is the subject of an active application before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and itogai uses the ™ symbol, never the registered symbol, until a registration issues.

Marks are shown here in itogai’s own casing. A United States application for a standard character mark is recorded on the USPTO register in capital letters, which carries no meaning about how the mark is used and does not displace the style rules in Section 4.

This Notice does not print application numbers, filing dates, classes or status. Each of those belongs to the public record rather than to this page, and status changes on the USPTO’s own schedule, so a value printed here would be out of date the week it publishes. The authoritative source is the USPTO’s own public record: its Trademark Search system lists every application in the name of Itogai LLC, and its Trademark Status and Document Retrieval system at tsdr.uspto.gov shows the current posture, the filing history and the full goods and services description of each one. Both are live, free and public.

itogai claims common law rights in each mark in addition to the rights the applications seek, and nothing in this Notice waives any of them.

3. The symbol

• The symbol is ™. Every word mark other than itogai carries it on first mention on a surface; the logo carries it wherever the artwork appears.
• The registered symbol is never used, by itogai or by anyone else referring to an itogai mark, because no itogai mark is registered. Using it would be a false claim of registration.
• First mention per surface, then dropped. A surface is a single document, page, screen, deck, email or episode. The first appearance of a mark on that surface carries the symbol. Later appearances on the same surface do not.
• The symbol never appears in a technical identifier: no code identifier, URL, route, filename, database field, environment variable or analytics event name.

itogai in running text carries no symbol. The brand name reads as ordinary text by design, and the lowercase treatment is itself the distinctiveness. The other six marks carry the symbol on first mention, and a navigation or footer link that names a product is treated as its own surface and carries the symbol. The logo as drawn always carries the symbol, wherever the artwork appears. Two surfaces are excepted: the itogai mobile application and its store listings carry the symbol on itogai on first mention, because screenshots of those two surfaces are filed as specimens of use, and a name shown used as a mark is stronger evidence than a name that reads as running text. The carve-out is scoped to those two surfaces and travels no further.

4. How the marks are written

4.1 itogai is always lowercase, including at the start of a sentence, in a heading, and in interface copy. Never Itogai, never ITOGAI, never iTogai.

The legal entity is Itogai LLC, capitalized, and that form is used wherever the entity rather than the brand is the subject: a contract, a policy, a notice, an invoice, a filing, a copyright line.

4.2 Akai is always sentence case. Never AKAI, never akai.

4.3 The Trust marks are single words with internal capitals: TrustGraph, TrustRings, TrustReach. Never two words, never all lowercase, never all capitals.

4.4 Every mark is an adjective, never a noun. Write “the TrustGraph score,” “the TrustRings organization,” “the TrustReach action layer.” Never “a TrustGraph,” never “your TrustRings,” never “run a TrustReach.” itogai’s own line, in which the marks name their layers (“TrustGraph scores. TrustRings organizes. TrustReach acts. Akai threads through. Network Health pulses.”), is the one use itogai makes of a mark as a noun, and it is not a permission for anyone else. The line may run without the symbol; where it is the first mention of a mark on a surface and carries none, the symbol goes on that mark’s next mention.

4.5 A mark is never pluralized, never possessive, never a verb, and never altered, including by abbreviating it, hyphenating it, translating it, transliterating it, or incorporating it into another word.

4.6 The logo, where itogai has authorized its use.

• Use the official file itogai provides. Do not redraw, recolor, distort, rotate or animate it.
• Permitted backgrounds are Soft Cream #FEFAF6 and Deep Charcoal #1E1E2E. Do not place the logo on a background that compromises contrast or legibility.
• Clear space: a margin on all sides equal to the height of the lowercase “a” in the wordmark. Nothing else sits inside that margin.
• Minimum size is stated in the brand kit referenced in Section 10, which is the authoritative source for it; where the brand kit and the clear-space rule above differ, the brand kit governs.

5. What you may do without asking

5.1 Refer to itogai accurately. You may use an itogai mark in plain text to refer truthfully to itogai, to the Subscription Service, or to a feature of it: in an article, a review, a comparison, a job posting, a conference talk, a course, or a description of how your own work uses itogai.

5.2 Say that you use itogai. “We use itogai” and “built on itogai” are accurate statements and require no permission.

5.3 Say that you integrate with itogai, where you do. “Works with itogai” and “integrates with itogai” are permitted where the integration exists.

5.4 Editorial and journalistic reference. A journalist, analyst or commentator may refer to itogai and its products in coverage of itogai, of the relationship intelligence category, or of the wider market.

5.5 Accelerator and ecosystem partner reference. An accelerator or ecosystem partner may identify itogai as a partner, a founder benefit or a program participant in its published lists, decks and comparable materials.

In each case: use the mark in text rather than as a logo, use the correct form from Section 4, do not make itogai the most prominent element of your material, and include the attribution in Section 8 where space allows.

6. What requires written permission

Write to trademarks@itogai.com. itogai answers in good faith and does not unreasonably withhold permission for an accurate use.

• Using the itogai logo in any material of your own, including a partner page, a slide, a badge or a website.
• Using a mark in the name of your product, service, company, application, domain, social media handle or repository, whether alone or combined with another word.
• Merchandise, printed goods or physical items carrying a mark.
• A press release, an announcement or a partnership statement that uses a mark to describe a relationship with itogai.
• Any use that could reasonably be read as itogai endorsing, sponsoring or certifying your product, service or content.

7. What is never permitted

• Any use amounting to trademark infringement, dilution, tarnishment, false designation of origin, or unfair competition under United States federal law, the law of any state, or applicable law elsewhere.
• Suggesting an endorsement, sponsorship, partnership, certification or affiliation that does not exist.
• Registering or applying to register an itogai mark, or anything confusingly similar, as a trademark, company name, domain name or handle, in any jurisdiction.
• Using the registered symbol with an itogai mark, or otherwise representing that an itogai mark is registered.
• Altering the logo: changing its colors, proportions, orientation or elements; adding to it; placing it inside another shape; or recreating it.
• Using a mark in a manner that is disparaging, misleading, or associated with unlawful conduct.
• Using a mark in a way that dilutes it, including using it generically to mean a category of product rather than itogai’s own.
• Describing Akai as an agent, an assistant, or an automation, or representing that it sends anything on a person’s behalf. Akai is itogai’s relationship intelligence co-pilot: it drafts, surfaces and explains, and the person decides and sends.
• Describing any itogai product or feature as an outreach sequence, an outreach engine, outreach automation, a cadence or a drip campaign. itogai offers none of those.
• Representing a TrustGraph score as a deterministic, audited, certified or guaranteed assessment of any person or relationship.

The last three are as much a matter of accuracy as of trademark law. A mark used to describe something the product does not do is a misrepresentation of the product, and itogai treats it as one.

8. Attribution

Where you use an itogai mark and space allows, include:

itogai, the itogai logo, Trustbound, TrustGraph, TrustRings, TrustReach, and Akai are trademarks of Itogai LLC.

The line names seven marks and never names anything else.

9. Third-party marks

Names and logos of other companies that appear in itogai material are the trademarks of their respective owners, and their appearance does not imply any affiliation or endorsement in either direction.

All services, platforms and tools named on itogai’s pages, in the Subscription Service or in its guides are the marks of their respective owners, used descriptively and in plain text to say which tools are involved. Their appearance implies no affiliation, sponsorship, endorsement or partnership, and itogai displays no third party’s logo or lockup to suggest one.

10. Press and brand kit

A brand kit with the official logo files, the color palette and the typography reference is available on request. Write to demo@itogai.com with the subject line “Press and Brand Kit Request” and say what publication, event or context it is for.

11. Reporting misuse

To report misuse of an itogai mark, write to trademarks@itogai.com with the material in question and where it appears.

To request permission under Section 6, write to the same address with what you propose to do, where it will appear, and for how long.

12. Changes to this Notice

itogai amends this Notice whenever the underlying trademark position changes, including when a mark is added, when a mark registers, or when a filing changes. A change that narrows what you are permitted to do takes effect thirty (30) days after publication. A change that records a new mark, a registration or a correction is published immediately with the Document Version incremented.

If a mark registers, this Notice is updated before the registered symbol is used anywhere, so that the symbol and the record never disagree.

13. Contact

Trademark permissions, misuse reports and questions about this Notice: trademarks@itogai.com. Other legal notices: legal@itogai.com.

Postal address: Itogai LLC Attn: Legal Department 4821 Jumping Way Lake Worth, Florida 33467 United States of America

Changelog

Also amended September 21, 2026, before first publication. A section on third-party names states that the services and tools itogai names are their owners’ marks, used descriptively, with no affiliation implied.

What changed from TM v2.0, May 11, 2026, and why.

• The per-mark status table is gone. Status changes on the patent office’s schedule and a printed status is stale the week it publishes. Section 2 points to the public record instead.
• TrustRings replaces the retired mark throughout, and the retired mark appears nowhere.
• Section 4.6 restores the logo specification: permitted backgrounds, clear space and minimum sizes.
• Section 5 adds editorial and ecosystem partner reference as uses requiring no permission.
• Section 7 names the causes of action rather than describing misuse generally.

Amended September 21, 2026, before first publication. Section 3 records the specimen carve-out for the mobile application and its store listings. Section 2 no longer prints application numbers, filing dates or classes; the public record carries them and this Notice points to it, as it already did for status.

A copy of the prior version is available on written request to legal@itogai.com.

Document version: TM-2026-09-21 v5.0. Published at itogai.app/legal/trademark-notice-and-usage-guidelines.

© 2026 Itogai LLC. All rights reserved. itogai, the itogai logo, Trustbound, TrustGraph, TrustRings, TrustReach, and Akai are trademarks of Itogai LLC.