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From: | Derek Robert Price |
Subject: | Re: Lines of development |
Date: | Thu, 06 Mar 2003 14:03:46 -0500 |
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Kevin Wang wrote:
From Derek Robert PriceYou can also do a trademark search online http://www.uspto.gov/ though remember it's just a "layman's search" and not a thorough legally binding search. "lines development" turned up nothing. I'd ignore them or wait until they provide trademark registration documents. Not that I'm a lawyer or anything...
Actually, I did some reading on the USPTO web site and discovered that you can defend a trademark without registering it. There are "common law" rights that allow an entity to establish a trademark through simple use of the trademark.
Of course, a trademark is supposed to be "used, or intended to be used, in commerce to identify and distinguish the goods of one manufacturer or seller from goods manufactured or sold by others, and to indicate the source of the goods," so I think I am in the clear since anything that is already in common usage before the attempt to establish a trademark cannot be used to "distinguish the goods of one manufacturer...from...goods manufactured or sold by others."
Of course, I'm not a lawyer either. Thanks for your input, Derek -- *8^) Email: derek@ximbiot.com Get CVS support at <http://ximbiot.com>! --Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage. Lettuce pray
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