Use a Registered Trademark – A How-To Guide
You have a registered trademark – well done. But your work isn’t over. Now, you have to do several things to keep your trademark registration alive, and you must avoid a few other [...]
Common law trademarks
In the U.S., trademark rights are built through use, not by registration. If you don’t register your mark, you will have common law trademark rights. So why go through the time and [...]
Trademark classes
When planning to register a trademark, you must choose which trademark classes to use for your goods and/or services. If you have questions about what trademark classes you should be considering, [...]
May the Fourth be with you!
Today, Star Wars fans rejoice as we greet each other with a cheery “May the Fourth be with you!” In case you’ve never heard of this, or seen social media light up with it every [...]
“Use in commerce”, “intent to use”, and trademarks
To apply for a Federal trademark registration, you must either have used the mark in commerce, or intend to use the mark in commerce. How do you know what is a “use in commerce”, and [...]
Trademarks: what are they?
In the U.S., trademark rights accrue through use of the mark in commerce. But what is a trademark, or a servicemark? How are marks evaluated? What is a mark? A trademark identifies the source of [...]
