Under United States Law you can establish rights in a trademark simply by using it. However, owning a federal trademark registration on the Principal Register provides several key advantages: Constructive notice to the public of your ownership of the trademark Your...
Why do you conduct a trademark clearance search? Because you should know before you invest all the time and money to develop a product or service if your new brand or service is already being called the same thing as you. A simple search of the USPTO trademark...
It depends. The old adage, “If it’s too good to be true it probably is” comes to mind. More often than not, if you see advertisements for trademark services offering rock bottom fees for clearance searches and registration work the person or company offering the...
Many of my clients ask me what they should do when first creating a brand. The very first thing you want to do is to search for the proposed brand name on Google or some other search engine to see if someone else is already using it for the same types of products or...
If you believe someone is using your domain name in bad faith (e.g., obtained a domain name similar to your domain name or with slight typographical errors similar to your domain name or is using a metatag with your domain name or mark), you need the power of an...
We conduct comprehensive trademark searches, which include the US federal, state, common law, Canadian, UK, German, EU, & WIPO trademark databases. We also check top level domain names. Why do you conduct a trademark search? Because you must know before you...