by Angela Langlotz | Aug 7, 2024 | Copyrights, Design Patents, Patents, Trademark Application, Trademarks |
What Is A Trademark, And What Does A Trademark Protect? Trademarks protect your right to use any distinctive word, phrase, or symbol in conjunction with the goods and services that you offer to others. If the trademark is registered, it means that the US government...
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...
by Angela Langlotz | Apr 23, 2019 | Logo marks, Trademark Usage, Trademarks |
Last weekend I was at a bar, and as so often happens, I looked around at the various brands around the room. I’m not a beer drinker, but I noticed something interesting that I thought would illustrate a point of trademark law. Check out the photo below. To you, that...
by Angela Langlotz | Apr 9, 2019 | Trademark Usage, Trademarks |
I was guitar shopping with a friend of mine last weekend at Emerald City Guitars, and found the inspiration for today’s trademark video. The guitars were much more interesting, for sure, and I have another inspiration for content from my visit, but today an amplifier...
by Angela Langlotz | Mar 26, 2019 | Design Marks, Logo marks, Trademark Infringement, Trademark Usage, Trademarks |
Recently Nike Inc. came under fire for trademark infringement for adopting as a clothing logo an emblem that is almost identical to that of the United States Naval Academy, owner of a trademark for that design. The United States Naval Academy owns trademark...
