Create and Register a Trademarkable Brand in six steps. The steps you take before you file determine your success, and include performing a trademark search, and finding a professional who can help you understand the potential risks and liabilities associated with your brand
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Early Internet marketers disseminated misinformation leaving many Internet businesses with weak or no brand protection. Marketers in their quest to secure easy search rankings, as well as domain resellers seeking to drive up prices, failed to communicate this important message: A generic term will never be a trademark or brand for the product or service being sold.
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Most new brand owners perform a registered trademark search to make sure they don’t get sued by a third party. This is most important. And, there are other equally important benefits to performing a trademark business name search. A trademark search provides a detailed picture of the competitive landscape for the goods or services you plan to sell and serve as a road map for future brand expansion.
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Descriptive trademarks are “bad brands,” since they don’t qualify for trademark registration. They spend 5 years on the Supplemental Register and after release, must still prove secondary meaning aka acquired distinctiveness in order to be enforceable against third parties. This is an expensive, difficult hurdle most that most can never meet.
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Clients and marketing professionals are often confused as to the difference between registration of a domain name and registering a trademark or service mark. Domains names are not trademarks. A domain is nothing more than an Internet address, much like the street address where you live. Domain names do not afford protection against use of the domain name for competitive products or services unless separate trademark rights are established and registered.
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A registered trademark is vital to protecting your brand in today’s online global market place. Before filing for a registered trademark, review your proposed trademark to see whether it will even qualify for legal protection and approval as a registered trademark. When selecting a trademark to marry to your brand values and message, it’s important to know where a proposed brand name lands on the continuum of legal protection.
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Before launching a new product or service, take some some to make certain you have chosen a good trademark. The new brand owner wants the mark to be . . .
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Every brand needs a dream team. That team consists of not only people who help create, communicate, manage, direct, and protect the brand, but also . . .
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Why is Branding Important? Branding is vital to the survival of almost any online business. Branding includes the thoughts and emotions that are triggered in the consumer when they see your product or interact with your brand. Another reason why branding is important is that brand names, and logos are brand ambassadors for your business.
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Choosing a great brand name that is strong and protectable is not always easy. But what happens when you decide to protect that brand by filing for a trademark registration, and someone tries to stop you?
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