Tontine Group what is a commodity market," she said. "In other countries there is no market leader because manufacturers tended to stay in their local areas." As the company is well known, it is referenced in jokes. For example, an Australian legal newsletter said of an alleged swindler who padded his timesheets "that at one stage pillow makers Tontine were said to be interested in sponsoring him." Duvets in Australia are known by the genericized trademark "Doona"; the brand name is owned by the Tontine Group. The brand name was acquired by Tontine in 1991 when Pacific Dunlop took over the Northern
Registered trademark symbol the service mark symbol ℠. The proper manner to display these symbols is immediately following the mark, and is commonly in superscript style but is not legally required. The registered trademark symbol was originally introduced in the Trademark Act of 1946. The registered trademark character has a standardized representation in most computer systems. It is mapped in Unicode as . The registered trademark symbol ® is distinct, in computer representation, from the similar character Because the ® symbol is not commonly available on typewriters and ASCII-based computer systems, it is common to approximate it with the characters (R) (or (r));