# hecigo brand and trademark

The hecigo name and logo are registered with the Intellectual Property Office of
Viet Nam. This page is the registry record, written out so anyone can check it
without asking us first, followed by the rules for using the name and the mark.

## The registry record

| Field | As filed |
| --- | --- |
| Mark | hecigo, wordmark and hexagon logo |
| Certificate number | **521781**, barcode `VN 4-0521781` |
| Application number | `4-2023-07143` |
| Filed | 6 March 2023 |
| Published | 25 July 2023 |
| Granted | Decision `157403/QĐ-SHTT`, 30 December 2024 |
| In force until | 6 March 2033, renewable |
| Registrar | Intellectual Property Office of Viet Nam |
| Proprietor | CÔNG TY TNHH CÔNG NGHỆ HECIGO, the Vietnamese legal name of HECIGO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD |
| Address on the certificate | CirCO Dien Bien Phu, 222 Dien Bien Phu street, Vo Thi Sau ward, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City |
| Mark type | Ordinary |
| Registered colours | Black, white, blue, purple |
| Class | **Nice class 09** |
| Goods covered | Computer software (recorded); recorded computer programs; computer programs, being downloadable software |

### Checking it yourself

Search the mark name `hecigo` in the public database published by the registrar
at
[wipopublish.ipvietnam.gov.vn](https://wipopublish.ipvietnam.gov.vn/wopublish-search/public/trademarks).
It returns one record.

The registry writes the two numbers in its own format, which is worth knowing
before you decide they do not match the certificate: the certificate number
appears as `4-0521781-000`, and the application number as `VN-4-2023-07143`.

That link goes to the office that granted the mark rather than to the agent who
filed it. A record you can only reach by filling in someone's contact form is
not a record you can check.

## What the registration covers, and what it does not

Class 09 is the software class. It covers the packaged, downloadable things
hecigo publishes, which today are the two open-source n8n community nodes on npm
listed under [developer resources](https://hecigo.com/developers/).

It is not a registration in class 42, so it carries no claim over integration
services. We name the class rather than write "registered trademark" on its own
and leave you to assume the wider reading.

## Writing the name

- Always lowercase: **hecigo**. Including at the start of a sentence, and in
  headings and titles.
- Never set it in capitals, and never give it a capital first letter. The one
  exception is the legal entity name, HECIGO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, where the
  company register requires capitals.
- The registered-mark symbol goes on the first or most prominent mention in a
  document, once: hecigo®. Repeating it in every paragraph is the opposite of
  what it is for.
- Do not translate it, abbreviate it, hyphenate it, or bend it into a verb.

## Using the logo

The lockup is the hexagon plus the wordmark. Files sit under `/logo/` on this
site, in SVG for anything that renders SVG and PNG for the mail clients that do
not.

| Use | Light background | Dark background |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Full lockup | `/logo/Logo_light.svg` | `/logo/Logo_dark.svg` |
| Icon only | `/logo/Logo_icon_light.svg` | `/logo/Logo_icon_dark.svg` |
| Stacked | `/logo/Logo_stacked_light.svg` | `/logo/Logo_stacked_dark.svg` |
| Single colour | `/logo/Logo_mono_light.svg` | `/logo/Logo_mono_dark.svg` |

The brand gradient runs `#5F96FF` to `#4E37C5`, and the wordmark ink is
`#181818`. Those three values are mirrored from the hecigo design system, which
is where they are decided.

Four things to avoid. The second is not hypothetical: an earlier version of this
site flipped the logo with a CSS filter instead of shipping the two variants, and
the result was a wordmark in a colour that is nowhere in the registration.

- Recolouring the gradient, or flattening it to one of its two ends.
- Putting the light lockup on a light background, or the dark one on a dark
  background. Pick the variant, do not invert the image with a CSS filter.
- Stretching the lockup to fill a box, or rotating it.
- Crowding it. Leave clear space on all four sides at least equal to the height
  of the hexagon, and do not set the full lockup narrower than 96 pixels, where
  the wordmark stops being legible.

## Permission

Press, partners, and customers may use the hecigo name and logo to refer to
hecigo factually: unmodified, from the files above, and without implying that we
endorse or sponsor anything. Anything beyond that, ask at
[hi@hecigo.com](mailto:hi@hecigo.com) and you will get an answer within one
business day.

If you believe someone is using the mark in a way this page does not allow, the
same address reaches us.