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Trademark Registration Process — Do it Yourself or Hire an Attorney?

Up and Running

Ideally, the trademark registration process should begin as soon as you’ve narrowed down a selection of possible marks, including business or product names, logos , and slogans. When is it time to apply for a trademark.

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Trademark or Copyright – Which Does Your Small Business Need?

YoungUpstarts

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) handles trademark and patent registrations, as well as renewals and disputes. Put simply, a trademark is used to protect things like company names, logos, slogans, product names, etc. Trademarks. While trademarks are managed by the USPTO, the U.S.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 1-Conveyed an idea based on a product. We came up with our product name before our company name. Our product is Sgt.

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An Interview with crowdspring Naming Creative, Mike Taylor

crowdSPRING Blog

It’s not easy to name a new company or product. During the brainstorming process, you may think you’ve found the perfect name only to learn that name already belongs to someone else. All businesses should have access to affordable, high-quality company naming services. How did you become interested in naming?

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

Up and Running

If you do have competition, pay special attention to your product name, price range, materials used, what the product claims to do, packaging, and who the manufacturer is. A great way to find potential licensees is to look for products similar to yours and then to look for the name of the manufacturer.

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7 Reasons To Think Globally While Still New And Local

Startup Professionals Musings

But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Don’t pick a name for your company or product that has a negative or totally different meaning in another language. with demands for new products and services.

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Search: Not Provided: What Remains, Keyword Data Options, the Future

Occam's Razor

I can create a report in Google Trends for the query "car insurance" and look at the past 12 months of data for the United States. My most important query is car insurance (surprise!).

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