How does a trademark work?

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If you own a domain name before it gets trademark how does that work?

I have a question, what if somone own the name ivy blue or ivy blue carter.com etc and now that JZ AND BEYONCE IS filing a trademark rights to the name, will that person or persons have to give up thier domain legally? what if itwas register before they...

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If you own a domain name, you own it until you sell it or stop paying for it. If someone trademarks...

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How does a registered trademark work?

Okay, I need to know in simple terms how it works. What is it? How do you get one? How do you know if the name is taken? Can I check? Does it count if for example your idea is KK and there is a restaurant chain called KK but you want to do a shop? How...

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A registered trademark allows you and only you to trade under a certain name/brand/likeness. You can...

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How does the trademark system work?

I run a small local computer repair business. I have a website and i have acquired a DBA (assumed name) in the name that i use for my business. the problem is that my website, lets call it computer repair man for example, i own THECOMPUTERREPAIRMAN.com...

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I am not a lawyer, but I think you'd have a hard if not impossible time trademarking a name as generic...

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How does trademark infringement work with foreign names?

I'm not sure I'm phrasing my question appropriately, so please feel free to edit. I recently was reading an article about the Japanese company MobCast and their new product, "Moba Pro Seat." Now, there's another product by DeNA called mobage...

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Trademarks are region specific, so you were right to identify that they would first have to be in competing...

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Small Business Advice: Is it legal and acceptable to work as self-employed and sign all contracts with my name, but represent myself initially for the clients as a studio with name XYZ having trademark XYZ and website xyz.xy?

Is it legal and acceptable to make business in the following way? 1. I will work as self-employed from home, and sign all contracts with my name. 2. But at the same time I will create website xyz.xy, register trademark XYZ, and write on website that...

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I'm going to assume that you are in the United States. That's a pretty big assumption, since most Quora...

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Can an open-source tool's trademark be used in a fork or other derivative work?

Take the trademarked term "Chromium" for example.   Can  a derived work (e.g. a "fork" of the code base) use the word in its domain or product name (e.g. "BetterChromium")?      chromium.org's contents are licensed under...

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A trademark can only be used with permission of the trademark holder. If you want to release BetterChromium...

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Both are forms of intellectual property, giving the creator (or other rightsholder) the exclusive right...

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I mean the Japanese Shonen Jump. Do the authors of content own the copyright and the trademark on the...

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A trademark would only be useful if you were using it as a logo, i.e., a mark used in trade.

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According to the Achtel Law Firm, there is no such thing as a "poor man's trademark", so it...

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