June 16, 2009
Preventing the Cybersquatters and Name Squatting Opportunists
It is easier and cheaper to prevent cybersquatting than to fight it after the fact. The best protection is pre-emptive: register your trademark before someone else does.
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July 14, 2009
Are you currently in the process of registering a trade mark for your brand? Everything can be ticking along smoothly until the day you receive a letter from the registry saying that your application has been opposed. What to do next? ...
October 1, 2009
The UK Trade Mark Registry offers a trade mark application service called Right Start, which has been available since 2009.
Under the Right Start service applicants will be able to test whether their trade mark will be accepted by e...
June 28, 2010
Some time ago Coca Cola registered COKE as a trade mark for soft drinks both in the UK and USA.
So, I was interested to hear from my daughter that the term ācokeā is commonly used as a general reference to fizzy drinks throughout the ...
July 2, 2010
In business, as in life, we are constantly assessing and managing risks.Ā One of the most important risks to avoid is that of choosing your brand name without doing some very careful searches.Ā Ā
I know this from personal experience.
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August 9, 2010
In a notable article, the IPKat drew attention to the fact that there is a marked separation between the worlds of trade marks and branding.
More often than not the two are not addressed collectively, but are rather dealt with by com...
February 28, 2011
In deciding whether to file a trademark application to protect your domain name, the first step is to determine whether you use your domain name as a trademark. If your domain name isĀ onlyĀ used as the Uniform Resource Locator (āU...
March 11, 2011
How safe is your twitter account username? Today I discovered that Twitter transferred the account #girlgeeks to the trade mark owner of the name even though the latter had only registered aĀ logoĀ markĀ incorporating the words (see imag...
In this post Iām going to offer some information that I think might be quite useful to you when youāre establishing a new business or product.
Youāre likely to be thinking about a name, commissioning a website and logo to lau...
When a key player in the Governmentās plans to strengthen the IP framework, encourages business owners to file their own trade marks, explaining this is to help them afford trade mark registration, I wonder whatās going on.
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Whilst the most common use of trademarks is to legally protect brand names or logos, this is by no means the only way in which a trademark reinforces a brand.
Trademarks act to identify the source of a good or service to consu...
Choosing names that say what your business does on the tin may not be the best approach to choosing domain names online, despite it being an approach many businesses have adopted in the past.
Often, it seems like a good idea ...
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