Berserk comes from Old Norse berserkr, which combines ber-(bear) and serkr (shirt). According to Norse legend, berserkrs were warriors who wore bearskin coverings and worked themselves into such frenzies during combat that they became immune to the effects of steel and fire.
n. ( 1 Abbr. TM) A name, symbol, or other device identifying a product, officially registered and legally restricted to the use of the owner or manufacturer. 2  A distinctive characteristic by which a person or thing comes to be known: the shuffle and snicker that became the comedian's trademark. Back in the 19th century the Bass & Co Brewery used a Red Triangle logo for their pale ale and in 1876 this logo went on the become Britain's first trademark and as far as we could find, the world's first trademark. Bass Pale Ale Trademark. Page Sponsored By: Arcade Force Gaming Directory.
The first acknowledged advertising agency was William Taylor in 1786. Another early agency, started by James 'Jem' White in 1800 at Fleet Street, London, eventually evolved into White Bull Holmes, a recruitment advertising agency, that went out of business in the late 1980s.nother early agency that traded until recently, was founded by Charles Barker, and the firm he established traded as 'Barkers' until 2009 when it went into Administration. Volney B. Palmer opened the first American advertising agency, in Philadelphia in 1850.