trademark basics

The Right Brand Name Can Garner SuccessOK, so here are the 4 things your brand must be to be truly successful. As long as your brand has these 4 not-so-secret ingredients that I'm gonna share with you in a moment, you will have a powerful brand that will help you...

The Dumbest Advice: "Don't worry about trademarks until you get big. Once you get big, then you will be able to take care of all that.", Why is this the dumbest trademark advice? Because successes don't just happen, they require a lot of work, time, thought, and effort. Putting so...

First Sign That You Need to Trademark Your Brand#1. You spend time, money, and energy advertising your brand. Now you spend countless hours and thousands of dollars running ads, exhibiting a tradeshow, attending networking events, creating marketing for your business because you want the world to know that you...

Trademarks vs Car insuranceThere are three similarities and three differences between trademark registration and car insurance. Let's start with similarities first. Number one - you MUST do both even though you don't want to do either. So both are necessary "evils." You've got mandatory car insurance. You don't have mandatory...

How to Trademark a NameBefore we get into the actual formula, let me make a couple of remarks. So, we call TMs into Rs a brand protection formula. TM refers to an unregistered trademark, which means you yourself think it's your trademark. You don't need a lawyer to do that...

What Happens?Some party files a statement of opposition petitioning the trademark office not to register your mark because of any number of reasons. Usually, they believe your registration will hurt their rights or legitimate interests. It is your responsibility to respond and prove that your reasons for registration outweigh...

It’s a story we’ve heard many times before when someone with an idea for a trademark is beaten to the punch by another quicker applicant. It’s something of a hidden trademark cost in that slowness to act is punished over the faster applicant. Will the trademark examiner...

Tips for Your Trademark Registration ProcessTip #1Tip number one, get it done. Unless you're building your business hoping to fail miserably in the next year or two, there's really no situation in which not having your brand trademarked is better than having your brand trademarked. Every single time, having your...

Definition and purposeA Statement of Use (SOU) is a sworn document filed by the trademark owner to attest that the trademark is currently in use in commerce. It is required by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to maintain a trademark registration. The purpose of the SOU is...