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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. Upon closer inspection, however, the application form is filled with requests that require legal analysis.

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Trademark or Copyright – Which Does Your Small Business Need?

YoungUpstarts

Eventually, you’ll likely find yourself facing another question: “Do we need a trademark or copyright for our products?” The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) handles trademark and patent registrations, as well as renewals and disputes. Defining Trademarks and Copyright. Trademarks. Xavier Morales, Esq.

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

Up and Running

Coming up with an idea or inventing a product is a process that takes commitment, dedication, and self-belief. Ultimately, inventing a product or coming up with an idea means one thing: solving a problem, whether it’s your own or someone else’s. What product doesn’t function like people wish it would? Step 5: Protect your idea.

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

Occam's Razor

We can guess our brand terms and product keywords, but the wonderful harvest of category-type, and beyond, keywords is gone. Another important reason historical data becomes stale pretty quickly is that any nominally functioning business will have new products, new content, new business priorities, and all that impacts your search strategy.

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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. The images in this interview are the winning names from some of the projects Mike won on crowdspring.

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7 Reasons To Think Globally While Still New And Local

Startup Professionals Musings

What all this doesn’t mean is that you should roll out your product in every country at the same time. But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. with demands for new products and services. Find global sources now.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

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. 7- Outcomes of the product. Photo Credit: Justin Baum.

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