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How can a design mark be distinguishable and registrable over a word mark?

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How will a design mark application be compared to a word mark registration? To register a trademark containing numbers and/or letters, a trademark application may typically be filed for the word mark (standard characters) or the design mark (e.g.,

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How To Avoid Trademark Confusion

Patent Trademark Blog

If you have already been using a mark and do not want to transition to a new one, a search can enable your trademark attorney to craft your application to minimize overlap with any arguably similar marks. Will a logo or graphic design help to avoid trademark confusion?

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What is the “Supplemental Trademark Register”?

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On the other hand, the other register at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the Principal Register. This article will compare each register, and explain the usefulness of each. What is a Supplemental Register Trademark? Supplemental vs Principal Register Comparison Table.

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What are the intellectual property rights for startups?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Additionally, copyrights can also extend to website content, graphic designs, logos, videos, and other digital assets. Design patents: Design patents protect novel ornamental designs for an article. Startups can protect both the source code and object code through copyright registration.

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How to Handle a Trademark Rejection: File a Design Patent Instead?

Patent Trademark Blog

Rejected Trademark Application? Get a Design Patent Instead The path to registering a trademark can be strewn with landmines. When your trademark application faces difficult rejections, would a design patent make more sense? Having difficulty trademarking your brand?

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Trademark Glossary of Terms

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Who is a trademark applicant? Anyone who applies for a registered trademark. A trademark which is a combination of a word mark and a figurative mark, for example a text with a particular design (logotype), or the combination of a logotype and and a logo. What is a common-law trademark? E What is EUIPO?

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Can You Trademark an NFT?

LexBlog IP

” As explained above, trademark applications for a single work of authorship are refused eligibility on the trademark register. Trademark Act Sections 1, 2, and 45, 15 U.S.C. §§ The stronger the trademark, the more likely that the USPTO will grant registration on the higher, the Principal Register.