{"id":2707,"date":"2014-04-07T07:41:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T11:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2014-04-07T07:41:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T11:41:07","slug":"trademark-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/2014\/04\/07\/trademark-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There a Trademark in Your Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You, too can have a trademark, in fact, you may already have one!.\u00a0 A trademark may be a<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Word,<\/li>\n<li>Symbol,<\/li>\n<li>Design or<\/li>\n<li>Combination word and design, a<\/li>\n<li>Slogan or even a<\/li>\n<li>Distinctive sound which identifies and distinguishes the goods or services of one party from those of another or a<\/li>\n<li>Color or even the<\/li>\n<li>Shape of the product itself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In general, the term\u00a0 trademark refers to both trademarks and Service Marks. For the most part, a <strong>TM<\/strong> for goods appears on the product or on its packaging, while a service mark is usually used in advertising to identify the owner&#8217;s services and will be <strong>SM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting thing about a trademark is it must be in use to be registered.\u00a0 When a trademark is registered you will be able to use the circle R:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rcirlce.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2703 aligncenter\" alt=\"rcirlce\" src=\"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rcirlce-150x150.jpg\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rcirlce-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rcirlce.jpg 170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 70px) 100vw, 70px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Registering takes place at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/trademarks\/index.jsp#\">United States Patent and Trademark Office <\/a>and each state has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/products\/library\/ptdl\/locations\/index.jsp\">Patent and Trademark Resource Centers<\/a> to help you at different libraries.\u00a0 Check out your local opportunity to secure your trademark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You, too can have a trademark, in fact, you may already have one!.\u00a0 A trademark may be a Word, Symbol, Design or Combination word and design, a Slogan or even a Distinctive sound which identifies and distinguishes the goods or services of one party from those of another or a Color or even the Shape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2710,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions\/2710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}