by Angela Langlotz | Nov 3, 2020 | Design Marks, Trademark Registration, Trademark Usage, Trademarks |
People are sometimes surprised to learn that a color can serve as a trademark. The Lanham Act — United States trademark law — says that any “device” that distinguishes a company’s goods or services can serve as a trademark. So yes, a...
by Angela Langlotz | Oct 27, 2020 | Trademark Application, Trademark Registration, Trademarks |
Do you have to trademark your company name and logo? Well, you don’t *have* to do anything you don’t want to do — it’s a free country, as we used to say in grade school — but if you want the exclusive right to use your company name as a...
![Is It Trademark Infringement If I Mention That My Course Is “How To Use [Famous Brand]?”](https://trademarkdoctor.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/NominativeFairUseTrademarks.jpg)
by Angela Langlotz | Oct 19, 2020 | Trademark Fair Use, Trademark Infringement, Trademark Usage, Trademarks |
No! There is a doctrine of “fair use” in trademark law called “nominative fair use” that allows for the use of someone else’s trademark to refer to that mark for purposes of mentioning the owner’s goods and services that are associated with the famous mark. This is...
by Angela Langlotz | Oct 12, 2020 | Trademark Application, Trademark Registration, Trademark Usage, Trademarks |
Do I have to use my business name as a trademark? That’s a question that I get a lot, and I want to answer it here, just to dispel any confusion. People seem to be under the impression that if you have a business name, you necessarily need to use that business...
by Angela Langlotz | Oct 6, 2020 | Trademark Usage, Trademarks |
I keep getting more questions about trademarks for a book series. A viewer asked me, “So can I have the same title for all of the books in a series, but then call them ‘volume one’ and ‘volume two’?” And the answer is yes, you can...
by Angela Langlotz | Dec 31, 2019 | Trademark Application, Trademark Registration, Trademark Rejections, Trademarks |
Can I Register A Trademark For An Ordinary Phrase? Yes, absolutely! As I’ve said before, anything can serve as a trademark so long as it distinguishes your goods and services from another company’s goods and services. Here we have Kawhi Leonard applying...
