Trademark Protection
Maintain Trademark Protection for the Life of Your Brand
Actions that SUSTAIN® trademark protection include:
- Establish brand guidelines to share with team members, affiliates, distributors and licensees to avoid loss of rights. This includes the risk that trademark protection is lost when a distinctive trademark becomes a generic trademark.
- Maintaining registered trademarks, including timely payment of trademark maintenance fees.
- Understanding when and how to trademark a name in foreign countries as your business expands internationally. Read: Trademark Registration Goes Global.
- Monitoring the market for trademark infringements of your Trademark infringement examples include new application filings that are a violation of your rights, use of your trademark in domain names for related goods or services, trademark infringement on third party sites and in social media; counterfeit goods containing your registered trademark. Read: 5 Steps to Trademark Monitoring.
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- Are you ready to be seen and heard in the noisy online world?
- Bulletproof your online business with a distinctive USPTO trademark.
- Create valuable Intellectual Property that grows business value.
Our mission: To make sure you
a brand and a business that’s
BUILT TO LAST.
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