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FAQs Trademarks
It's very upsetting to find someone using your business name, or one that is "confusingly similar." Taking advantage of Trademark law can help prevent problems and protect your rights.
Jean Sifleet
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Trademark Infringement
What do you do if you receive one of those "Cease and Desist" letters? What happens if someone has infringed YOUR trademark?
Mikki Barry
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Product Trademarks
How does one go about registering a trademark on their product name? Here is a handy article on the very basics of "how to."
Mikki Barry
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Trademarks in India: Law & Procedure
The Indian law of trademarks is enshrined in the Trade Marks Act, 1999. The Act seeks to provide for the registration of trademarks relating to goods and services in India. The rights granted under the Act, are operative in the whole of india.
George Kutty
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Trademark Issues in the Mobil Auto Business
There have always been trademark issues and lawsuits in the mobile auto service business. I know this because I own several such businesses. We first noticed a competitor in the Mobile Auto Detailing Business, which had a name "Mobile Auto Services" another "Mobile Oil Change" and still another "Mobile Car Care". Mobil Oil Company was marketing at the time their Gas Station Service Centers as "Mobil Auto-Services" "Mobil Car Care" and...
Lance Winslow
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Trademark: Do I Need One for My Business Name and Logo?
Wondering if a trademark is important to you as a business owner? A trademark is a word, phrase, symbol, or logo that distinguishes and identifies the source of goods of one company or person from another. The symbols TM and SM demonstrate the owner treats the mark as a trademark or service mark.
Wendy Maynard
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Trademark Your Business - Lessons Learned
Small business owners learn many lessons the hard way - through the school of hard knocks. I recently experienced my own tough lesson concerning the importance trademarking my business name. Like many solo-entrepreneurs on a tight budget, the thought of trademarking my business name was not high on my priority list. Had I placed more importance on it, I might have saved myself some anxious moments, not to mention a few hundred dollars in attorney fees!
Jean Hanson
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Overview of Trademark Law
Trademark law gives companies the exclusive right to use a given name or design, called a "mark," for the purpose of identifying the source the of that company's goods or services. Trademark law is an incentive-based system. Because it gives companies the exclusive right to use a mark in connection with certain goods or services, the company can create a brand that is recognizable by the consuming public. That trademark would be associated with and incorporated into every...
Henry J. Fasthoff, IV
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