[Hidden-tech] trademark applications

[Eric Troseth]

Re: [Hidden-tech] trademark applicationsPeter Irvine is an experienced intellectual property lawyer in Northampton who can provide quick answers or detailed solutions depending on your needs. He's also participated in Hidden-tech discussions.

His website is www.peterirvinelaw.com

Eric


----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Will Loving 
  To: Theresa Leary ; hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net 
  Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 8:56 PM
  Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] trademark applications


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  Theresa,

  The main issues to consider - having just gone through this recently - are what categories to list your registration under, and performing searches to make sure the name is not already in use for someone doing something close to what you are doing. If someone else is doing something similar (and in the same category) with a name that is similar to yours, you may be denied the registration. Start by doing basic web searches through Google, etc. and check some of the free registered names databases that are available online. The cost comes when you need to do a better search for names that are similar - possibly similar enough to cause confusion. There are search services which can pull up these kinds of possible conflicts and then you need to go over them with your lawyer to determine if any are possible problems.

  You will also need to carefully pick which categories you register for and the more categories you choose the more the cost and the more likely the chance of hitting a conflicting name.

  Will

  Will Loving, President
  Dedication Technologies, Inc.



  on 9/10/05 10:49 AM, Theresa Leary at theresa.leary at ecomod.net wrote:


    Hi Hidden Techies, 
     
    I'm looking into registering the company name as a trademark and wonder if any of you have experiences to share in this area. 
    I've got an application from the US Gov't website http://www.uspto.gov/index.html and have read all the instructions, etc.  It looks do-able but I wonder if it is recommended to have a lawyer do this.  
     
    I want to register the name and logo of the company (see below) as well as the name of some software products that we will put on the market.  Any comments are very welcome and appreciated. 
     
    Theresa
     
    Theresa Leary
    Managing Director
    EcoMod LLC

    351 Pleasant Street, #357
    Northampton MA  01060-3900 USA
    tel: +1 413 586 3203
    fax: +1 413 517 0900
    www.ecomod.net <http://www.ecomod.net/> 


     


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