Trademark professionals often warn our clients to be skeptical when they receive official seeming bills or notices offering pricey and unneeded trademark related services. These scams have been around for
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What Do Trademark Symbols Symbolize?
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The short answer is that ™ is supposed to mean someone just thinks something is a trademark. ® is supposed to mean that a government trademarking authority has agreed that…
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US TMs: Use ’em or Lose ’em
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In the United States, unlike overseas, you get a lot of legal protection right away simply by coming up with a brand name and USING it to sell goods and…
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Con Artists Roll Out The Red Carpet To Trademark Owners
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Registering your brand name as a trademark domestically or internationally can be a long, confusing process involving obscure governmental agencies requiring various fees at seemingly random intervals. Some of these…
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Marijuana Will Soon be Legal in Half of the United States But Not Trademarkland
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This week eight of the nine states voting on the issue said yes to cannabis decriminalization but the USPTO continues to say no.
Trademarkland takes a hard line against drugs,…
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Step Carefully To Avoid Fraud in Trademark Land
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It makes complete sense that a brand owner shouldn’t be able to lie to the Trademark Office when it tried to register its brand name as a trademark. Let there…
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