Just because the MyIPO hasn’t yet approved your trademark doesn’t mean you can’t fly a TM symbol proudly on your website or place of business. Legally speaking, attaching a TM symbol to your name only means that you are asserting a public claim of ownership to the trademark. It does not mean
Date: February 28, 2020
Keeping with the rule of “first use,” just because your competitor has yet to register its trademark with MyIPO doesn’t give you legal grounds to appropriate it for yourself. While you can certainly pay to file an application on the trademark that your competitor uses, your application will
1. Don’t make the trademark too similar
2. Pick the right owner
3. Don’t ignore Office Actions
4. Accurately describe your goods or services
5. Avoid descriptive and generic terms
Yes, you can trademark a quote – provided that you use the quote as either a brand name or slogan for your products or services. A quote can’t be trademarked in and of itself, it needs to be part of the branding of a product or service.
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