Trademarks - How to Pick a Good Name for Your Product or Business. EP068

03/28/19 • 12 min

While I focus on patents in this podcast, you should also know some basics about trademarks. In this episode I go over some things to think about when deciding on a name for your product or business. I go over the five categories of marks: generic, descriptive, suggestive, arbitrary, and fanciful, and what to watch out for when picking a name.

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Trademarking - Picking a New Name (Trademark Searching). EP069

In this episode I go through how to figure out whether the name you have picked for your product has already been trademarked by someone else. Learned how to do a very basic trademark search using the United States Patent and Trademark Office TESS trademark database.