FaQ’s

Intellectual property - IP: refers to the legal rights that protect creations of the mind, such as i...

A trademark is a type of intellectual property right that is afforded to brands in the form of a wor...

A patent is a legal document that grants an inventor exclusive rights to use an invention. All paten...

Copyright (or author’s right) is a type of intellectual property and a legal term used to describe t...

A geographical indication (GI) is a sign used on products that have a specific geographical origin a...

Trademarks and copyright are both forms of intellectual property, but they protect different types o...

According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, goodwill is 1. “The favor or advantage that a business ha...

A service mark is a form of intellectual property protection. The mark prevents competing businesses...

A trademark is a word, phrase, symbol, or logo used to brand, identify, and distinguish a product. A...

A word mark is a trademark typed in standard characters without regard to font, style, size, or colo...

A word mark is a type of trademark that consists of a single word or combination of words used to...

If you are filing for a design mark, you must decide whether or not you will claim colors. If color...

Many countries accept a color to be registered as a trademark, such as Tiffany blue, Galaxy silk bro...

A design mark is used to register a logo, design, graphic, or image. If it also includes wording, su...

A trademark can be a logo or a word. Registering your logo as a trademark is important because, in s...

Easy Trademarks advises registering the trademark in the language it will be used and in the officia...

In a trademark application for a standard word mark, it does not matter whether the letters are in u...

A slogan is a memorable phrase created to persuade customers and ensure they remember the product/se...

Yes, a slogan can be registered. However, due to the nature of the words being generic, it may take...

You can trademark your name if you intend to use it in selling goods and services. However, even if...

You can trademark any word or phrase you would like as long as it is distinctive and unique, whether...

The ® symbol can only be used when a trademark is registered and you have received the Certificate o...

The ® symbol has typically placed in the upper right hand corner or lower right hand corner of a reg...

The ™ symbol shows that a trademark filing is under process. If your trademark is not registered, TM...

There are many types of trademarks to help protect your trademark: trademark, service mark, word mar...

A certification mark is a trademark used to demonstrate that a particular product or service complie...

A collective mark is a trademark used or intended to be used with goods or services in the course of...

In the absolute, if you are not a resident or citizen of a country, then you should assign a local l...

Yes, if you are a resident of the country and able to visit the trademark office, you can register a...

Trademarks are jurisdictional rights; therefore, each country/jurisdiction can provide a certificate...

A generic trademark, is a trademark or a brand that has become a generic term or synonymous with, a...

The Nice Classification (NCL) for trademarks, established by the Nice Agreement (1957), is an intern...

When protecting trademarks, an applicant has to decide what specific goods and services the mark wil...

There are 45 classes of goods and services, and all Arabic countries use the nice classification of...

It is a good idea to register your trademark to use the mark freely, stop others from using it, and...

For a startup or an entrepreneur going into a brand new business, registering a trademark would be v...

For a startup or an entrepreneur going into a brand new business, registering a trademark would be...

A trademark can be registered by an individual. Although it can be registered, an individual will no...

Generally speaking, any individual, whether local or foreign, can register a trademark they own. Ver...

Selling or transferring ownership of your trademark is decided by the individual or company that own...

A trademark search is a search for all trademarks that have been previously filed or registered in t...

An identical trademark search provides results of marks exact to the mark searched in the language r...

A similar trademark search provides results of marks that are similar in pronunciation or look to th...

A knockout search provides results of marks that are identical or HIGHLY similar, providing the appl...

Some trademark searching can use the USPTO Web Trademark Database: U.S. federally registered tradema...

A trademark search is usually cheaper than a trademark filing. It provides visibility for whether or...

For trademark searching to be effective, you must have a couple of trademarks you are interested in....

In general, you can search by image, logo, word, phrase, number, or symbol. However, due to limitati...

Trademark watching entails monitoring official gazettes and flagging potentially conflicting applica...

The trademark registration process varies from one country to the next and is dependent on the speci...