Trademark Name Search and registration

25th March 2010
By Stephen in Copyright & Trademark
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While registering your trademark for legal protection against violation on your reputation and your product then you should search for a unique trademark name.

The main reason is that if other has a similar name or trademark then it would cause confusion and to avoid it you should search for it and from USPTO office website trademark name search can be done.

Now why do require registering for a trademark?

Registering for a trademark is mandatory for every industry. Each and every organization have own product and to keep it unique and to avoid infringement of your trademark you need to make a registration. In this world wide competitive market, if you want to highlight with you company name or logo then you trademark should be unique and you should make an international trademark registration. As US federal trademark registration doesn’t give you protection outside of the USA.

You can protect your company and your business by this trademark registration. There are some requirements to make a federal trademark application.


1. Specimen of the trademark
2. If the mark is already used then where and when it has been used 1st time
3. A drawing of the trademark and make sure the trademark drawing should be with good clarity
4. the filing fees
5. what are services and goods that’s are providing by the mark
6. And the correspondences address and name.

Here you will require an experienced trademark attorney

If you product is patent and you have done your trademark registration then for other company, it would be an illegal issue if they use your trademark or sell your product without your permission. If you think that it’s a very simple task to file a trademark application and you don’t need an attorney to do the paperwork as you think that you can do it on your own then it would be a wrong decision.

A lawyer will be able to navigate through the maze of the Patent Office in the U.S... They not only do all the necessary paperwork, they know the ins and outs of the trademark law and they stop violation of your trademark. An experienced trademark attorney will know about all requirements and through the process they are quite expert to help.


Always remember that registering trademark is not mandatory but it is important. Having a trademark notifies a person that he has the corner of his own market. Let him to take legal action if another company attempts to undermine his name. They are essentially protecting their market in the registration of a mark by publicly identifying their name. The protection allows a greater piece of mind for the average enterprise, ensuring that no body can interfere with their customer base to confuse activity with their own business.

And its very simple like your name is Juanita and you are a good scientist but there is another Juanita who is not comfortable with science, now certainly you don’t want to be confused with the other name, right? This type of circumstances may in business sector also that is why to protect the company name and trademark it is important to make the trademark registration.
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