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What You Need to Know About Trademarks
Many businesses have a logo or symbol the represents their company's identity. It is important to protect your identity. Once you trademark your company's identity, you own it and no one else can legally use it.
Jo Ann Joy
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What Is A TradeMark And Why Should I Have One?
The short answer to this question is that a trademark can become a brand. Even if you're business is local, a brand name is important not only from a marketing but also a customer perception basis.
Abbie Frank
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Free Trademark Searches
Before filing for trademark, it is a good idea to search for information such as Trademark Acceptable Identification of Goods and Services, Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure, Design Code for the logos and images. With these guidelines, you can make certain the trademark you are developing is unique. It can also help you avoid any trouble or violations not only on the possible similarities on existing trademark, but on violation of standards that have been set.
Elizabeth Morgan
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Trademark Logos
Logos are symbols that represent something. It is usually a company, product or brand. Logos help the company to register a particular image in a person's mind about the company. For this, the logo has to be attractive, unique, and functional. It should also represent the company's image well.
Eric Morris
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Trademarks – What You Ought to Know
Trademark law affects every business in the United States. Don't assume that your new business name, new product name, slogan or logo has not already been used commercially OR trademarked! No business name may be used in any one of the following cases...
Shannon Moore
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Trademarks - What is a Conflict? What is a Strong Similarity?
Comprehensive trademark research consists of several layers: Researching comprehensive databases, such as Lexis-Nexis or Dialog; Looking for similarities, such as synonyms, word placement & spelling variations; Consultation with a trademark attorney if Conflicts or Strong Similarities arise. The hardest matter to determine is what's going to be a potential problem for you and what isn't. Once that is ascertained, further research into the company or companies is needed.
Shannon Moore
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Free Trademark Search - Is it Possible to Search my Trademark for Free?
Yes and no is really the only way to answer this question. While there are some great preliminary sites anyone can access for free, that is NOT a clear cut indication of what's out there in terms of company names, service names or product names.
Shannon Moore
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Trademarks - A Quick Introduction
With the combined advent of the internet/dot-com boom and the prevailing trend of individuals going into business for themselves, the focus and importance surrounding intellectual property has been in the forefront of the minds of entrepreneurs, artists, inventors and anyone wanting to protect the fruits of their labors.
Shannon Moore
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Trademark a Name – How to Register a Trademark for Your Business
So, you finally settled on the perfect name for your product or service - it describes the business without being overly descriptive, it tells your customers exactly what you want them to know and it's catchy. That's fantastic! Finding just the right name is vitally important to the success of any product line or service.
Shannon Moore
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Trademark Infringement Against Newly Formed Businesses
Many years after forming a new business, your company may receive a letter telling you that your company's name is infringing upon another company's name. This could lead to either your company being forced to change its name or undergo litigation.
Paul Nicolosi
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