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Love or hate his politics, you probably didn’t forget the name Barak Obama once you heard it. Apparently a lot of people would like to trade off that fact. Since Barak Obama came onto the national scene, over 100 US trademark applications have been filed based on his name, beginning as far back as 2005 […]
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When you’re looking to register an international trademark, realize that some countries don’t allow you to register a trademark unless it is “distinctive.” For example, an application to register a single letter or a short combination of letters and numbers may be refused registration in some countries because it is not “distinctive.” Trademarks in the […]
I once had a client who had launched a promising start-up business. He had a great idea and enough capital to make it fly. He invested in product development, spent a small fortune on an infomercial, and filed for several trademarks. But before he did all that, and before he called a lawyer to help […]
With the proliferation of new top-level-domains (gTLDs) and companies trying to decide whether or how to include gTLDs in their business strategy, some people may lose track of the more basic elements of that strategy. A gTLD can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to register, self-host, and maintain from year to year. But don’t […]