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Our experienced Burlington trademark attorneys & lawyers represent individuals and businesses with everything they need to secure and protect their trademarks. Our attorneys can help individuals with everything from trademark clearance searches to determine whether the desired mark is available for adoption, use, and registration. By reviewing the search reports thoroughly, they can conclusively determine the extent to which a mark is already being used and the potential success of filing a trademark.
Trademark licensing can be complex, but our trademark attorneys have experience drafting agreements on behalf of both licensees and trademark owners - thus allowing you to capitalize on your valuable intellectual property. Our Burlington trademark attorneys can also draft and file your trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), including Intent to Use and Use in Commerce applications.
Our attorneys can also help protect your trademark around the globe by assisting clients with filing trademark applications under the Madrid Protocol, which allows trademark holders to obtain protection in multiple countries by filing a single application.
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Key Takeaways
- Trademark Law Defined: Trademark law protects unique identifiers like names, symbols, or designs that distinguish products or services.
- Expanded Scope of Trademarks: Includes color, shapes, and trade dress that are inherently distinctive and associated with a particular brand.
- Importance of Trademark Law: Ensures brand identity, consumer trust, and prevents unauthorized use or dilution of trademarks.
- Trademark Registration Benefits: Provides nationwide protection, strengthens enforcement, and prevents registration of confusingly similar marks.
- Loss of Trademark Rights: Can occur through abandonment, improper licensing, or genericization.
- Trademark Infringement & Dilution: Involves unauthorized use or weakening of a famous mark's distinctiveness.
- Legal Defenses: Fair use, nominative use, and parody can serve as defenses in infringement claims.
- State vs. Federal Trademark Law: Federal regist
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Key Takeaways:
- Trademark vs. Logo: A trademark protects various elements like company names, phrases, words, and logos. A logo is a symbol or design often covered under trademark laws.
- Trademark Importance: Registering a trademark for your logo gives exclusive rights, preventing others from using a similar logo and avoiding consumer confusion.
- Trademark Process: Before applying for a trademark, ensure the logo is unique by checking existing registrations. Filing an application takes 6-16 months.
- TM/SM Symbols: You can use TM (for trademarks) or SM (for service marks) on logos while waiting for approval. These symbols show intent but offer no legal protection until registration.
- Scope of Protection: A trademark protects your logo in all forms, including color, size, and font variations, but only for the exact design submitted. Changes to the logo
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- Trademarks identify the source of goods/services using logos, words, or symbols; trade dress protects the visual appearance or overall image of a product or business.
- Trade dress must be non-functional and have distinctiveness (often proven through secondary meaning) to qualify for protection.
- Registration of trade dress occurs through the USPTO's trademark system and can involve litigation to enforce rights.
- Trade dress is subject to stricter scrutiny than trademarks due to its broader and more abstract scope.
- Design patents, while not the focus here, offer another route for protecting visual features but differ significantly from both trademarks and trade dress.
What is Trademark vs. Trade Dress?
A trademark offers legal protection for a logo, symbol, phrase, word, name, or design used to show the manufacturer of a product. Trade dress protects al
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Read MoreInformation Disclosure Statement
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What Is an Information Disclosure Statement?
An information disclosure statement (IDS) describes all prior art or related technology claimed in a patent application. It places the burden of disclosure on the inventor or applicant. If an application doesn't have this statement or fails to include key prior art, any issued patent may become invalid or considered fraudulent.
Information Disclosure Statement: What Is It?
Patent applicants have a responsibility to complete an IDS, which references:
- all prior art, or patents
- patent applications, and
- publications related to an invention.
Because inventors are more likely to be aware of
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