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A trademark is a sign, logo or design of some kind that distinguishes a particular product or service (or its provider or source) from others.
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Can song titles infringe on a trademark in certain cases?
If a song title uses or references a trademarked name, it is subject to trademark infringement? … Such a song title may or may not constitute trademark infringement depending on several circumstances. The core of trademark infringement is confusion. …
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Can a software's dictionary file include popular culture terms?
Should the software's producer be worried about trademark infringement? … If someone invents a novel word as a trademark, for example Exxon, the protection of that trademark means that you cannot confuse consumers by using the word Exxon. …
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Is an edited version of a trademark covered through the original trademark in the UK?
But in the end it also depends on how the trademark is used. You've used the original image in the question; have you violated the trademark? No. … Do you violate Tesco's trademark when you say "I went shopping at Tesco"? No. Do you violate their trademark when you sell food using the name "Tesco"? Yes. …
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Use of a trademark instead of a business name
of a single contract or other document, you can usually include language that designates a name for the business such as "this agreement is between Full Name Incorporation, Inc, hereinafter known as Trademark …
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Can the word "Cola" be used for commercial purposes?
Even if a word or phrase is unambiguously a protected trademark, there are still allowable uses, most notably to designate the product, service, or company associated with the trademark. … For a specific opinion about a specific use of a specific trademark, you should engage a qualified lawyer with experience in trademark law. …
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Can a photo that contains a trademark be used by a political campaign?
There's nothing in trademark law or copyright law that required the removal of this logo before the campaign could use the photograph. …
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Canada's Trademark Act
Or rather the ordinary commercial terms are among the many names of the goods that cannot qualify for trademark protection. … If you are trying to register "blouse" as a trademark for the article of clothing, you will not succeed. …
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Can misspellings be covered by trademark?
question, there is an additional factor which is that the possibly-infringing company is in a different line of business, which means that it might be possible to use the exact same name without infringing trademark … Trademark protection is supposed to prevent others from confusing consumers. …
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Can a registered user of a word mark which was registered as whole, break the word into part...
As with any trademark, of course, protection will be more secure if the mark is registered. …
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what happens if a brand or company's name is a common everyday word?
The thing your example seems to miss is that trademark protection does not prevent other people from using the trademark for any purpose whatsoever; it only concerns the use of the trademark for the purpose … But an unrelated company might be able to trademark "always" in connection with an unrelated product. …
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Does an app's name become protected nationally by common law trademark rights the day that i...
So does that mean that ... getting the common law rights will protect you just as much as registering a trademark for your app's name would[?] … No, because federal registration "gives a trademark owner substantial additional rights not available under common law."
Source: http://www.bitlaw.com/trademark/common.html. …
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Can you copy a trademark's goods and services description?
What they can't do is register the same trademark for the same goods or services. … To put it another way, the point of a trademark is to identify the commercial source of particular goods or services. …
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Substrings used in a trademark
First, the concept of substrings is not particularly useful in trademark law. … Volkswagen is a registered trademark of Volkswagen AG. All rights reserved. …