QUESTION
New Logo and Name for my business
Asked on Feb 08th, 2014 on Intellectual Property - Georgia
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I have launched a new website and have designed a logo and name for my business. I would like to register this logo and name, so no one else can copy it. Before doing that, I need to see if someone else in the USA and Canada doesn't already have something similar. How do I do that and what will be the cost of doing it; I mean for the search and registration.
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USPTO.gov is the site for the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The Trademark portion of the site has a boolean search tool for searching registered, pending, and abandoned trademarks. The tool is not the most user friendly system, but if you can ask a question on lawyers.com, you can probably make use of that search tool. That site also allows you to file a US trademark application online.
If you are not comfortable doing either, you can hire a trademark attorney. We typically charge $500 for a basic search and $850 for filing the trademark application (that fee includes the government fee). You might find someone closer to you who can do the work a little cheaper, but those numbers provide a baseline for thinking about what might be reasonable to expect.
Good luck,
Todd
Answered on Feb 10th, 2014 at 8:52 AM