Archive for the ‘Trademarks’ Category

Once you have established a company, be it an online company or a mortar-and-brick company, you will have to secure trademarks for your products, your company names, and your brands. Otherwise, you are not legally protected. Below are some practical tips to registering a trademark.
It all begins with a search.
To ensure that the trademark you are considering to use is not yet being used, has not been used, or is not being applied for use by other companies, it is [...]

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Brand names and company names aren’t required to be registered. But doing so will make a great difference at the end of the day. Once these brand names are registered then you get the protection not available for brand names not registered. The registration of trademarks means you will have the right and control for brands, titles and logos online.
And since you want to protect your brand name online, then clearly trademark registration is what you need more than [...]

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Legal Options When It Comes To Conflicts On Trademarks And Domains
As an owner of highly recognizable trademarks and domains online, there is a big chance that sooner or later you will be involved in a conflict questioning the ownership and control of these trademarks. This should not come as a surprise. When this happens, the natural course is for the conflicts and disputes to be referred to courts. The only issue here is that the courts of law tend to [...]

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How You Can Validate Which Trademarks Are Successful Than Others
What are the main similarities between that logo of Nike signified by swoosh and that logo of Coca Cola of red ribbon? Simple; these trademarks and logos of these two companies are well known. Even though only the logos are shown to the public, the consumers can easily indentify which products are represented and which companies are being promoted by these logos. Simply put, these two logos of the two companies [...]

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Under the rightful trademark law, all logos, names, and different marketing devices are provided legal protection. Trademark protection is henceforth considered easier if it falls under the “strong” category. If it is considered “weak”, it will be a bit tedious to be able to qualify for the so called trademark protection.
Strong and Weak Trademarks Identified
There are two possible ways on how the trademark may be deemed as strong. They could have been born strong or they can become strong through [...]

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