[Jewelry making - Article 00404] - Re: [Orchid] Domain names and trademarks

[James White]

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>     registering a.com domain name be considered a "poor man's
>     trademark"? 

    Emphatically, NO. But it is a start. Trademarks gain their basic
    rights through USE, NOT Registration. Trademark registration (not
    domain registration) gives you some official notice value and some
    other benefits but you can't actually finish the registration without
    USE in commerce. Dig around the USPTO.gov and the wipo.int sites and
    you'll find more on the subject of domain names re trademark. But
    some essentials are the farther toward the fanciful and arbitrary end
    of the continuum you are the more strength you'll have, the
    promptness and breadth of putting it to use (excluding the TLD part,
    e.g.,.com,.biz) will significantly impact any chance you have at
    retaining any rights, and, of course, the absence of overriding
    contrary factors could be a major key that you FAIL to answer with a
    mere domain name registration (example, choosing code-aak.com for
    photography would be a waste of money). 

    Don't NOT do it. By all means do it ----AND do the followed by
    superscript TM too (you can do that without anyone's permission
    whatsoever), and sell like crazy (you can do that without "much"
    permission too most places). Just be sure you've really made a much
    more thorough effort to turn up conflicts than a mere "no-one else
    has registered it yet" search. 

James E. White
Inventor, Marketer, and Author of "Will It Sell? How to Determine If
Your Invention Is Profitably Marketable (Before Wasting Money on a
Patent)" Info Sites: www.willitsell.com www.inventorhome.com,
www.idearights.com www.taletyano.com www.booksforinventors.com
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