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Which trademark or copyright symbol do I use?

Erik K Pelton

TM – Unregistered mark, used with products and tangle items. SM – Unregistered service mark, used with services. Here is a handy cheat sheet I made: ® – a.k.a “circle-R” – Registered trademark with the USPTO.

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TTAB Denies Petition to Cancel "ONEPACKET" Registration: Failure to Prove Nonuse

The TTABlog

The Board was not impressed by this showing: Although this evidence is relevant, it does not establish Respondent’s lack of use of its mark for a three-year period.

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Trademarks vs. Copyrights for Startups

TraskBritt Intellectual Property

A copyright is created the moment you have developed your work to the point that it is in a fixed and tangible form. This means that once you have created text for your website or recorded a video, these works are automatically protected by copyright and you are entitled to use a copyright notice, ©.