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Atlanta Trademark Lawyers

Atlanta trademark lawyers are lawyers qualified to act in matters involving trademark law and practices in Atlanta. They are familiar and well educated in different fields concerned with copyright and business issues. Many of the Atlanta trademark lawyers also handle civil and criminal cases.


Unlike in Commonwealth nations, Atlanta trademark lawyers, as well as other U.S. lawyers, need not pass specific exams to qualify and practice as trademark lawyers. Any lawyer can prosecute trademark applications before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Atlanta trademark lawyers are members of the Georgia State Bar Association.


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Trademark Your Business - Lessons Learned

Small business owners learn many lessons the hard way - through
the school of hard knocks. I recently experienced my own tough
lesson concerning the importance trademarking my business name.
Like many solo-entrepreneurs on a tight budget, the thought of
trademarking my business name was not high on my priority list.
Had I placed more importance on it, I might have saved myself
some anxious moments, not to mention a few hundred dollars in
attorney fees!


As a member of a couple different virtual assistant membership
organizations, I often look with interest at other VA’s business
names and website URL’s. One day I noticed a new member
announcement for one of the groups and saw a listing for VA
Office Solutions. Now this one hit a little too close to

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home for me - after all, my business name is VA Office Solution. I also noticed that she had a domain name to match.


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Public Domain

Pronunciation: ‘publik dow’meyn
Definition: [noun] property rights that are held by the public at large


(Public Domain) The total absence of copyright protection. If something is “in the public domain” then anyone can copy it or use it in any way they wish. The author has none of the exclusive rights which apply to a copyright work.


The phrase “public domain” is often used incorrectly to refer to freeware or shareware (software which is copyrighted but is distributed without (advance) payment). Public domain means no copyright — no exclusive rights. In fact the phrase “public domain” has no legal status at all in the UK.


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Trademark Your Business - Lessons Learned
...meeting with the attorney, I decided that my first stepshould be filing my trademark with the USPTO (http://www.uspto.gov). Now this is something that I could domyself, without paying an attorney, but taking into consideration my own time constraints and her ...



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An Introduction to Trademarks

In marketing, there is a particular strategy known as branding. In many ways, trademarks are designed to protect your brand from use by others.


An Introduction to Trademarks


A trademark is a form of intellectual property. Intellectual property is owned by the person or business creating it. With practically all forms of intellectual property, however, you have to take steps to formally notify the world of your property and protect it.


A trademark is a distinctive mark used to identify a product, company, service or device. When you think about it, you are very familiar with trademarks. At the risk of being sued to the high heavens, the following are trademarks: Coca Cola, Pepsi, Google, EBay and Toyota. Each

Public Domain
...copyright protection is. Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U.S. Code)and other countries to the authors of original works of authorship, including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual ...
of these words mean something to you and are readily identifiable with a product or service in your mind. When you think of EBay, you immediately think of an online auction site that was originally created so the owner s girlfriend could trade Pez dispensers [true]. When you think of Toyota, you think of cars. This is the power of brand recognition and trademarks are used to protect them.


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US Patent and Trademark Office: Security For Your Products, Business & Ideas

People are always coming up with different ways of creating income, it’s only natural. Some people will invent all sorts of revolutionary products that change the marketplace forever.


If you have a killer idea which you think can result in creating income for yourself, then the most natural thing for you to do should be to market that idea and make a profit from it.


Unfortunately, starting a business can be a difficult task. When starting a business you must realize that there are different laws that must be followed.


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