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You have a registered trademark – well done.  But your work isn’t over.  Now, you have to do several things to keep your trademark registration alive, and you must avoid a few other [...]

When planning to register a trademark, you must choose which trademark classes to use for your goods and/or services. If you have questions about what trademark classes you should be considering, [...]

In the U.S., trademark rights accrue through use of the mark in commerce – click here for for my post on what trademarks and servicemarks are. Why register a mark? There are many trademark [...]

In the U.S., trademark rights accrue through use of the mark in commerce. But what is a trademark, or a servicemark? How are marks evaluated? What is a mark? A trademark identifies the source of [...]

A dead trademark is one that was registered or applied for and is “dead” or abandoned, for several reasons.  Whether anyone else can use it, or whether the original registrant can [...]