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TRADEMARK
What Is a Trademark?
If you're a business owner, offer a service, or manufacture and sell goods, you work hard to build name and brand recognition for your products or services. Registering a trademark is an important way to prevent others from copying or profiting from the reputation you have built, and it helps protect the quality of your brand. A trademark is a unique sign or symbol that identifies a particular product or service as having come from you or your company.
This is usually a logo, image, word, phrase, or a combination of design elements. If you have a trademark like a logo for your goods and services, it is considered your exclusive intellectual property and may not be used by anyone else without your permission. Trademarks are identified by one of the following symbols:
TM (Unregistered Trademark) – Used to brand or promote products or goods.
SM (Unregistered Service Mark) – Used to brand or promote services.
® (Registered Trademark) – A trademark on file with the US Patent and Trademark Office.
A trademark generally applies only to goods and services and is different from copyright, which applies to creative works.
Click here for related information about protecting your copyright.
The Importance of Registering Your Trademark
Your trademark is your intellectual property and, if necessary, you can file a suit in court to prevent another person or business from using or infringing upon it. This includes someone copying your trademark and using it as their own, or creating a similar trademark that's intended to mislead or confuse the public into thinking it's yours. You do not need to register your trademark to file a suit, but protection for unregistered trademarks is often limited to the geographical area where you do business or plan to do business. You may also face additional limitations on your rights. Registering your trademark protects both your brand and your rights.
Use The Document People to Register Your Trademark
If you're ready to protect your trademark, we're ready to help! We can prepare the documentation you will need and submit it to the United States Patent and Trademark Office on your behalf. This complete service is provided for a low and flat fee, but please note that filing charges apply. Don't wait another day to register your trademark!
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Why Us?
There are other services that provide the preparation of a Trademark petition. What makes us unique is the fact that we follow the whole process for you from beginning to end for a low flat fee, and notify you when there is actual progress in your case.
Also, by filing electronically, we take advantage of the lower filing fee. Savings that we pass on to you.
Plus, you'll be protected from day one – without waiting for the Trademark Commission to receive and process your application.
The extent of the Trademark protection
The key to filing a trademark petition is to specify which type of product or service you are intending to protect. One of the most common misunderstandings regarding trademark applications is the notion that it can protect a name and logo against anybody, even companies that produce entirely different products or offer different services. That is not the case!
What's a “specimen”?!
A specimen is the proof that a certain product or service is in use at the time of filing the application.
Examples of specimens for goods are tags, labels, instruction manuals, containers, photographs that show the mark on the actual goods or packaging, or displays associated with the actual goods at their point of sale.
Examples of specimens for services are signs, photographs, brochures, website printouts or advertisements that show the mark used in the actual sale or advertising of the services.
