A trademark search is an important step in the process of trademarking a brand or logo. It allows individuals or businesses to determine whether their desired trademark is available for use and whether it may potentially conflict with any existing trademarks. Conducting a trademark search can help to avoid costly and time-consuming legal disputes in [...]
Is a State Trademark Search for you? Many people don't realize that there are two different types of trademarks: a federal trademark, which protects you on a federal level and a state trademark which protects you within one state only. STATE TRADEMARK VS. FEDERAL TRADEMARK The state trademark is going the way of the dodo bird [...]
Our Trademark Logo Search is the best value in the business. We’ve waited 20 years to offer an image search product! Up till now we just weren’t happy with the value and quality we could offer our attorney clients. We’ve developed a combination of the newest image recognition technology along with traditional design code searching that [...]
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Do you need Basic Information on Trademarks? When you are looking for basic information on trademarks there is no better place to get it than from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. They are the main government resource for basic trademark information in the United States, for those of you who are new to [...]
So, you are naming your new business, eh? After considerable time and effort, not to mention the expense, you or your client has developed a new product, product line, or established a new service. It is your pride and joy. You believe that with just the right name, the product/service (hereinafter “product”) will take off [...]
Likelihood of confusion in infringement cases will never be the same! A mark holder whose mark is found to cause a likelihood of confusion at the TTAB level, can also now have that determination applied against them in an infringement case, where they would be liable for damages and attorney’s fees, and could face an [...]
Have you wondered what a sample trademark search looks like? A quality Full Comprehensive Trademark Search will be broken down into Federal, State and various Common Law sections in alphabetical order. This will include all currently registered, pending, abandoned, canceled and expired trademarks and service marks, both identical and similar to your proposed mark. The company [...]
If you have one, you may wonder how to protect your trademark! When talking about the advertising, marketing and sales of a business’s goods or services, business and legal texts will generally talk about brands or trademarks; or, if they do address both, they deal with them as completely separate topics. As a student of [...]
USPTO International Schedule of Classes for Goods & Services Goods 1. Chemicals used in industry, science and photography, as well as in agriculture, horticulture and forestry; unprocessed artificial resins, unprocessed plastics; manures; fire extinguishing compositions; tempering and soldering preparations; chemical substances for preserving foodstuffs; tanning substances; adhesives used in industry. 2. Paints, varnishes, lacquers; preservatives [...]