Trademarks
Take a few simple steps to safeguard your brand. See how trademarks can protect your logos, slogans, company name, and more.
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What to Do if You're the Victim of Cybersquatting
What do you do if someone has already registered the name of your business or product as a domain? Worse yet, what if the domain owner is using the site to harm your business? And what can you do to prevent cybersquatting in the first place? Get answers here.
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Resolving Domain Name Disputes Online: Lay Claim to Your Domain
Calvin Klein did it. Julia Roberts did it, too. And they did it online. These superstars wrested back control of registered domain names containing their well-recognized names using online dispute resolution. And you don't have to be rich or famous to do the same thing when you expand your successful start-up to the online global market.
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Trademarks: After Your Mark Is Registered
Trademark registration provides important protection, but it's your responsibility to keep your registration active and enforce your rights.
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How Long Does It Take to Register a Trademark?
Once you have a name, slogan, logo, or phrase for your product or service, file a trademark application as soon as possible, as it often takes a year to receive final approval.
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Monitoring and Protecting Your Trademark
In order for a trademark to be effective, it must be enforced. Find out how to guard your trademark, what happens if you don’t stop trademark conflicts, how you can stop an infringing trademark, and more.
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Should You Trademark Your Name?
In the always evolving electronic age, many famous celebrities are using trademark law to protect the use of their name over the Internet. Should you?
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Health and the City: How Close Is Too Close in Trademarks?
Jennifer Cassetta was excited to apply for a trademark for her Manhattan fitness and martial arts center. Then HBO got word that her business is called Health and the City. The cable company thinks Cassetta's proposed name is too close to their hit television series.
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Let's Get Ready to Rumble: Trademarking Your Catch Phrase
How to get the maximum mileage out of your catch phrase? Develop a distinctive one, use it in interstate commerce, and register it with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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Registering Green Trademarks
While the USPTO is actively encouraging the development of 'green' technology, green trademark and patent seekers should be well-informed going into the process to increase the probability of success—because it's not enough to just have a catchy 'green' name anymore.
· 5 min read
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Taking Your Trademark Overseas
With the Internet and globalization making the world smaller, businesses are increasingly expanding overseas—and that means they need to protect their trademarks outside the U.S. Doing business in other countries? See how you can get trademark protection.
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