how do you trademark something?
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http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/tac/doc/basic/
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Trademarks can be names of products or services, logos, slogans, packaging and even sounds and smells. In essence, a trademark can be almost anything that is used to identify a particular product or service. Registering a trademark grants the owner exclusive rights to the mark within the specified industry. \n\nOf course, it's necessary to research the mark comprehensively prior to filing to ensure that there is no possibility of infringing upon another party. \n\nIf you are only conducting business in one state, then a State trademark is most appropriate. If you conduct (OR are planning to conduct) business in at least 2 states OR between the US & any other country, you can file for a Federal trademark.\n\nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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My understanding is that you can use the TM on anything you believe you created.  However, the Circle R can only be used on things that you have officially registered with the US patent office and received the ok.  Filing for a registered trademark is about $700 (last time I checked) and takes about 8 months to be approved, if it is approved at all.  Do remember that the USPTO will not research your trademark for you.
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A corporate name is reserved for the corporation by the act of incorporating in a state. You can trademark the name or logo on the federal or state level.\n\nIf you want to know if a corporate name is taken, you can search the web or go to thr web site for the agency in your state that oversees corporations (usually a division of another agency, go to your state's web site and enter corporations in the search box). Then enter the name you want to use.\n\nFor the US Patent and Trademark Office: http://www.uspto.gov/
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registered product.\nthe logo or design has been registered so you cannot copy it
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Create something unique and then follow the process.  Look it up on line...ie: search "how to register a trade mark"...
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Yea, I heard about this on our local news cast, that you all want to "sue" everyone using the "W" as your official logo...\n\nBut, I wont help you because you dont OWN the 'W'... (How can some one own an alphabet letter!)...\n\nTrade Mark infringement?  Baloney!  Schools around here have been using the "W" for a very long time...(a lot longer than that silly trademark you people tried to get away with)...\n\nSorry, wont help you on that one!\n\nI wish you well..\n\nJesse
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Trademark is usually for a name or symbol. (Words/ phrases/ logos).\nCopy right is usually for a work - literary/ music / art / books etc.\n\nExample: Dan Brown can copy right his book Da Vinci code - that means noone else can steal or plagiarise his book, or publish parts of his book elsewhere.\n\nHowever, a travel agent can advertise 'Da Vinci Code tours' taking tourists to the locations written in the book. To avoid it, he shud have 'trade marked' the word 'Da Vinci Code' itself.
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Do a search at the Patent and Trademark office to see if the name has been trademarked. \n\nHowever, if they never registered the name, it will not be listed there. That being said, if they haven't registered their name, then chances are they won't have the lawyers to do anything about it.
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You need to go to the office of patents. They will determine which one you will recieve although it's nearly impossible to copyright a phrase or slogan.
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US Copyright office.  But you will probably have to do a search or take a chance that your logo looks like one that is already trademarked.
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It's ideal to have comprehensive research conducted & the application filed PRIOR to launch. The reason being is that before you invest time & money into the brand, you'll want to ensure that the name is legally available.\n\nThe USPTO (US Patent & Trademark Office) does give you the ability to FILE for a Federal trademark before the mark is in use. However, you must be conducting business in at least 2 states before they'll grant you the registration. Since the filing process can take about a year (sometimes longer!), you'll have plenty of time to file any additional forms to take your application from pending to registered.\n\nPrior to investing your time, money & effort into a name, it is strongly advised that comprehensive research be conducted to ensure that the name you're interested in is truly available. \n\nThis entails searching the pending & registered Federal and State trademark files as well as the US National Common-Law files. Then, if clear, you can decide if you would like to file for a Federal or a State trademark.  \n\nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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You can't patent a logo. But you can copyright it. See:\nhttp://www.copyright.gov/\nfor more information.
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If you are talking about a logo, you probably need to be more concerned with infringing on a trademark, not a copyright.  The only way to really know if you are infringing on someone else's mark is to do a trademark search.  The breadth of the search will depend on how extensively you intend to use your mark.  For example, if you are only going to use it locally (in your city, and maybe state), then a statewide search should be enough.  If you intend to use it broadly (e.g. all across a country, or the world), you would need to do a bigger search.\n\nEach state in the US has an agency that registers trademarks, and some of them have search services you can use, sometimes for a fee.  The US Patent and Trademark Office has a website (http//www.uspto.gov) where you can do a basic search for trademarks registered there, but it is not exhaustive.  If it is something you really want to do and you intend to use your logo for a long time and make it an integral part of a serious business, you should hire an attorney or paralegal to do the search for you.
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I've listed some links to get you started -- hope they're helpful! The top 2 links are specific to Dallas/Texas.\n\nPrior to investing your time, money & effort into a name, it is strongly advised that comprehensive research be conducted to ensure that the name you're interested in is truly available. \n\nThis entails searching the pending & registered Federal and State trademark files as well as the US National Common-Law files. Then, if clear, you can decide if you would like to file for a Federal or a State trademark. \n\nResearch is needed to make sure your trade name is legally available, before opening, before expansion, before incorporation or before designing your logo. Similarities in sound, appearance and meaning affect you too!\n\nThere are 16+ million trade names in use in the United States. Similar names matter, if close in sound, appearance or meaning. Similar names in related classes, distribution channels and customer matter too. You are affected by Common Law use (14 million), State Trademarks (500,000) and Federal Trademarks (2 million).
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Difficult - probably, although to be honest, it would probably be one of those things that you'd have to try, and then find out! I would suspect the font itself is trademarked.\n\nCopyright isn't the right word here - it's trademark or servicemark. Copyright is whether you wrote those words, trademark is the 'look and feel' of something.\n\nIn these cases it's not so much about what the words are, but whether or not you are 'passing off', or trying to make your product look like someone elses. That's why "FONY" written on something in Sony's font would be illegal. According to the Major League Baseball site, "the names, nicknames, logos, uniform designs, color combinations, and slogans designating the Major League Baseball clubs and entities, and their respective mascots, events and exhibitions" are all trade/servicemarks.
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To *register* a copyright (technically, its copywritten when you write it), you send a copy of the work (strips, book, whatever) along with a form and $45 to the U.S. Copyright Office.\n\nTrademarks are a bit more complicated (not to mention expensive).  You generally have to show that you've used whatever you're trademarking in commerce, and send samples in.\n\nThe websites of the Copyright and Patent & Trademark Offices are below - both have good FAQ's on when you do and don't have to register your work.