Trademark Legal care for your business & product name
Book - 1992
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Berkeley :
Nolo Press, 1992
- Holdings
- CURRENT EDITION ONLY.
- Language
- English
- Item Description
- Subtitle varies.
Subtitle change with 15th edition (2025). Previous subtitle: "legal care for your business & product name." - Physical Description
- volumes : illustrations, forms ; 28 cm
- Publication Frequency
- Biennial, 1997-
- ISBN
- 9781413332469
- Your Legal Companion for Trademarks
- 1. Trademarks 101
- Trademarks and Trademark Law
- Types of Trademarks: Registered and Common Law
- Federal Trademark Registration
- Qualifying for Federal Registration
- Sources of Trademark Law
- Enforcing Your Trademarks
- Trade Dress and Product Designs
- The Difference Between Trademark and Copyright
- The Difference Between Trademark and Patent
- 2. High-Level Branding: Business Names and Domain Names
- Business Names as Trademarks
- Domain Names
- Trademarking Your Domain Name
- Other Trademark Issues in Cyberspace
- 3. Distinctiveness: The Key to Trademark Strength
- Distinctiveness and Registration
- Understanding the Levels of Distinctiveness
- Word Combinations: Slogans and Compound Words
- 4. Trademark Searches-What They Are and Why You Should Do One
- Why Do a Trademark Search?
- Federal Trademark Searches
- State Trademark Searches
- Common Law Trademark Searches
- Using a Trademark Search Service
- Using an Attorney to Handle Your Search and Registration
- 5. The Trademark Classification System
- An Overview of the International Trademark Classification System
- Fitting Your Goods and Services Into the Appropriate Class
- Your Trademark Search Will Help Identify the Right Class(es) for Your Mark
- 6. Doing a Federal Search
- The USPTO's Trademark Search
- A Knockout Search for a One-Word Trademark (Acme)
- A Knockout Search for a Multi-Word Mark (Incorporator Pro)
- Using TSDR to Find More Information on a Mark
- 7. Applying for a Federal Trademark
- Getting Started in Trademark Center
- The Application Menu
- Application Selection: TEAS Plus or TEAS Standard
- Trademark Details
- Goods and Services
- Specimen
- The Review and Sign Section
- What Happens Next?
- 8. How to Use and Care for Your Trademark
- Use of the Trademark Registration ® Symbol
- Using the TM or SM Symbol for Unregistered Trademarks
- File Your Section 8 and Section 15 Declarations
- File Your Section 8 Declaration and Section 9 Application for Renewal
- Use It or Risk Losing It
- Maintain Tight Control of Your Mark
- Use the Mark Properly-Avoid Genericide
- Transferring Ownership of a Trademark
- 9. Sorting Out Trademark Disputes
- Trademark Infringement
- Defenses to Trademark Infringement
- Determining Priority in an Infringement Dispute
- Dilution
- Cybersquatting
- 10. Trademark Disputes: When Someone Infringes Your Mark
- The Cost of a Trademark Dispute
- How Much Is Your Mark Really Worth to You?
- Seeking an Injunction to Stop the Other Side's Use of the Mark
- How to Handle an Infringer
- 11. Trademark Disputes: When Someone Objects to Your Trademark
- Two Trademark Battlefields: Court or the TTAB
- How a Court Can Terminate Your Trademark
- How the TTAB Can Terminate Your Registration
- Should You Fight?
- 12. International Trademark Protection
- Where Will You Seek Protection?
- How Do You Register Abroad?
- 13. Help Beyond This Book
- Nolo.com
- USPTO.gov
- Read the Trademark Statute
- Appendixes
- A. International Classifications of Goods and Services
- B. Glossary of Terms
- C. Selected Pages From Thomson CompuMark Trademark Research Report