Can you add categories to your trademark?
Answer: No. Once a trademark application is filed, you may no longer add additional classes to it. If you need to protect your trademarks for new product or service offerings, you must file a another, separate application.
What evidence is required to overcome the lack of distinctiveness impediment to registering a trade mark?
If the sign applied for has no inherent distinctive character, the sign can only be registered if the applicant can prove that the sign has acquired distinctiveness through use. When it comes to proving acquired distinctiveness, evidence in many cases requires a market survey.
Can I add a logo to my trademark later?
If you file a trademark as a name and a logo combined, then you must always use that exact combination on your products or services. This allows them to use the trademarks like legos, and either put them together or take them apart however they’d like.
What can not be protected as a trademark?
A trademark which shows kind or quality A brand name which consists of the word which is commonly used in day to day life to identify the product cannot be trademarked. It may include kind, quality, quantity, values, geographical origin, and its characteristics. Following are some examples which cannot be trademarked.
Does space matter in trademark?
When it comes to trademark registration, it is similar – the USPTO will deny a trademark application for a trademark that is confusingly similar to one that is already registered for related goods and services. Most of the time, spacing between words does not change the overall impression of the trademarks.
How do I register a single word as a trademark?
This involves registering a single word as a trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). A trademark is a word, phrase, sign, symbol, or logo used to identify a product’s owner. Trademarks give exclusive rights to a person or company to use a specific mark within an industry. What Is a Trademark?
What can and can’t you register as a trade mark?
What you can and cannot register. Your trade mark must be unique. It can include: words. sounds. logos. colours. a combination of any of these.
Can I trademark a common word or a common phrase?
Possibly – if you’re using an arbitrary word to apply to your brand of products or services (like Apple for computers and phones,) then you may be able to trademark a common word or phrase. Clients oftentimes call me to ask if they can get a trademark registration on a “common word” or a “common phrase.”
What is the difference between a registered and unregistered trademark?
A word is a trademark if that word identifies a brand, regardless of whether the word itself is registered. However, unregistered trademarks with the USPTO are only trademarked within the company’s geographical area. Trademark rights for an unregistered mark belong to the company that first used the mark.