On July 17, 1947, The National Association of Real Estate Boards applied to the United States Patent Office to register REALTOR as a trademark. The date claimed for first usage was March 31, 1916. It first came into common parlance with an utterance by a witness at a subcommittee hearing in 1919. Three years later, Sinclair Lewis used it in…
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Trademark Registration In India
A trademark is any word , letter, symbol or a combination of all these which is used on the product in order to differentiate it from the product of another manufacturer. The trademark is a distinctive mark of the producer and is useful for marketing the product. Trademarks can be registered by any person so as to gain exclusive rights…
What Is A Trademark Anyways
We’re not necessarily talking about Elvis’ trademark sideburns or Catherine Hepburn’s trademark voice, but that’s not too far from the path. They’re everywhere you look, and yet do you really know what they are? Trademarks are a strange animal and it’s necessary that you get to know them if you have business endeavors of any kind. Whether you’re making your…
Dreaming To Sell Your Domain For Millions
Each and everyday you hear stories about some name getting thousands of dollars from the buyer. You also jump right into the game of domaining and hope for that lucky day to arrive when someone might get interested in your domain name. Right? The main problem with newbies over here is that they do very less research and start spending…
Volvo And Men Share Logo Jonathan Munk
This morning I came across an interesting article on abcnews.com that pointed out something I had never before realized: Volvo and men share the same logo. That’s right, the well-known circle with an arrow pointing diagonally to the upper right, made famous by disco kings of the ’70s, is also the logo used by makers of the safest cars on…
Combating Cyber Squatting And Other Domain Name Maladies An Overview Of Udrp Proceedings
Businesses that are working to establish an easily identifiable Internet presence oftentimes utilize their trademarks in their domain names in order to better direct customers to their website venues. Unfortunately, disputes many times occur when a business learns that some other individual or entity is using that enterprise’s trademark or something very similar in such a way so as to…