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  • Should we register the trademark or copyright for our app?
    Trademark Hi! We have just finished creating our first app. It's a social network and should mainly be used by users in the US and Canada. Once it comes out ...
    Answers: 1 Views: 1540 Likes: 4 Canada
  • When should we register a trademark?
    Trademark We are going through a number of beta tests with different variations of UX, graphics and branding. Since we want to test each variation in the mar...
    Answers: 1 Views: 1495 Likes: 4 United States
  • Trademark
    Infringement Why we need to register the trademark?
    Answers: 1 Views: 1751 Likes: 14 United States
  • trademark for product strategy
    Trademark We want to register a name for our startup and use a similar name to our competitor. What is the legal issues with this strategy? For example, say ...
    Answers: 1 Views: 1443 Likes: 8 Hong Kong
  • Registration of a European Trademark
    Trademark My company's name is registered as a Trademark in the US and I would like to register it in Europe as well. After some searching it turns out that ...
    Answers: 1 Views: 1690 Likes: 8 Netherlands
  • Should IP be in the company's or my name?
    Business strategy I am negotiating a deal with a friend who is CEO of a small software company about a software system I've created. She is very trustworthy in my ey...
    Answers: 1 Views: 1611 Likes: 4 United States
  • Can we use a famous logo on a gift card as part of a promotion?
    Trademark As a promotion for our startup we would like to give away gift cards for a large national chain as a prize. Can we legally use that company's logo ...
    Answers: 1 Views: 1489 Likes: 9 United States
  • What is the quickest way to get a trademark?
    Trademark We would like to protect our company & product name (identical). Some investors whom we approached early on mentioned that good TM protection could...
    Answers: 1 Views: 2050 Likes: 6 United Kingdom
  • Collision between registered trademark and app branding
    Trademark  We are about to name our mobile app, but we found that the name is already registered in the US for the same class. Can we still use the name?
    Answers: 1 Views: 1556 Likes: 5 United States
  • How do we best protect our website IP?
    Copyright Can a whole website be protected by copyright? Does that mean we would have to register every piece of content separately, or what is the best way ...
    Answers: 1 Views: 1181 Likes: 2 United States