Trademark Questions

Let's say we offer an approach to better dental hygiene and we call it the change™ dental hygiene solution and we represent our change™ solution with the Greek delta (?) symbol. Hence, we might...

Intellectual Property Trademark

asked Mar 5 '13 at 06:07

C. Scott
85 points

So my business is called The Hot Wafel (Wafel is spelled like this in Europe).A competitor is using the words "Hot Waffles" to describe what he offers to the public. Is their potential conflict...

Legal Branding Trademark

asked Jul 7 '14 at 00:53

Rick Unuia
6 points

Let's say I created a software that automates the creation of Joomla CMS templates (this is just an example, I'm not into that). I manage to buy the domain name joomlatemplate.com. Great. But what...

Products Trademark Name

asked May 2 '11 at 22:59

User9982
206 points

When starting a new company we try to pick a name that is unique. However, now that business is global it's nearly impossible to pick a name that is not in use somewhere. I was wondering: What...

Trademark Name

asked Nov 8 '13 at 16:30

Alfa Zulu
116 points

I play baseball, talking on twitter 8/12 put my little saying that I have used for years and was going to trademark. Another baseball player said he liked it told him I was going to patent it and...

Legal Trademark

asked Nov 15 '13 at 05:21

Ogden
4 points

I want use the word "airbag" in combination with another word for my future online service, is this word a registered trademark ?

Trademark Online Service

asked Nov 27 '13 at 23:43

Elsadek
4 points

Background So, you may have heard of the "Net Promoter Score" which is trademarked term and is a metric for customer satisfaction and loyalty. Basically, there is a formula for calculating the...

Legal Trademark Web App

asked Nov 6 '13 at 09:28

Kristian
141 points

I hope I am posting this in the right board. My problem Making a new commercial Application name I don't understand how to read the trademarks Afraid of breaking trademark rules and have to...

Trademark Name

asked Sep 6 '13 at 03:12

Alice
108 points

Profiles are called Timeline's and not Wall's anymore. So I was wondering, does that mean if Facebook is not using the "Wall" trademark anymore if they will lose the trademark eventually? Maybe new...

Trademark

asked Aug 20 '13 at 09:32

Keverw
116 points

For example, if an Amazon competitor had the exact same product categories, or if a Craigslist competitor had the exact same categories...I'm mostly talking about how you categorize what you're...

Legal Copyright Trademark

asked Aug 20 '13 at 16:08

Aerovistae
115 points

I am developing a web site with an idea that it would be a networking platform for small companies. I have registered the name (Let's call it www.merchandiize.com for now...), however I have...

Patent Trademark

asked May 19 '13 at 00:40

Disconnect25
16 points

So I am working on a start up company in the fitness sector. Besides a couple of other things we are making training videos for fitness instructors, to show them how to do the moves and such. Our...

Legal Trademark

asked Jun 3 '13 at 07:29

Olli
89 points

I have a question regarding how a certain aspect of trademarks should be interpreted in the general sense, but I'll provide some of the specifics of my situation as a concrete example. The General...

Trademark Publishing

asked May 8 '13 at 07:54

rbwhitaker
3,465 points

Intended name for my startup seems to be free to use. A search in global/eu/us trademark databases all returned no entity with the same name. TLDs with my domain are either free or offered for...

Launch Incorporation Trademark Domain Name

asked May 9 '13 at 05:15

Eneyee
6 points

My understanding is that trademarks afford protection when used as an adjective to represent goods or services, but they do not afford protection for generic usage of a trademarked term and only...

Intellectual Property Trademark

asked Feb 16 '13 at 01:24

Cesel
128 points

I am about to submit my first app to the Apple app store. Let's say that it is called "GreatClock". There is already an app on the market called "great clock". There is some variable spelling,...

Iphone Apps Trademark Name Apple

asked Jan 18 '13 at 14:05

User35610
13 points

I am working on setting up an app development company along with a few of my friends. Assume that the name I want is "something". Since www.something.com was unavailable, I have decided to name it...

Copyright Trademark Name

asked Dec 14 '12 at 22:14

User22090
6 points

Filing a trademark seems easy and relatively cheap. And I'm planning to do so to protect my new brand despite it not being particularly valuable. The tricky part - the part where you have to decide...

Trademark

asked Dec 3 '12 at 02:34

Paperjam
394 points

Can I display original artwork in an exhibit if it contains trademarked logos, colors, fonts? An example would be an original oil painting I have of two NFL players wearing trademarked team...

Trademark

asked Nov 14 '12 at 05:35

Rob
6 points

I have read that android by itself is trademarked by Google but adding words to it such as "android lovers" is deemed legal. So my question is if you purchased a domain name with only the word...

Trademark Android

asked Oct 25 '12 at 01:07

Marc
11 points