Trademarks and Avoiding Consumer Confusion: Crash Course Intellectual Property #5

Can an elf be trademark?

what about selling trademarks? is that what CRM do for us so we don't get sued selling trademark products what is that called

is this what CRM did for us so i don't have to care and they still get their percentage share for business and its not royalty tax?

Hello, I am wondering if I would be allowed to use my surname as my trademark? As you can see, my surname is a famous brand but I believe I should still be allowed to use it considering it is my name

I'm seriously confused about who owns Break N' Bake. Is it Nestle? I tried looking it up but I couldn't find anything other than like, Kroger.

What if you have a blog where you don't profit at all with a very similar name to a company in the same industry with a registered trademark?

Intellectual property does not exist

If people are consistently buying Break N Bake, why would it matter if they know the name of the manufacturing company?

Thanks!!

Thanks for the video. If someone has a Class 35 Trademark application, could they place the TM on the tag of a clothing item as a specimen?

Star Wars: We need to make them change Star Trek into something else because people will get confused with the products. That is how stupid "consumer confusion" is.

Great videos thank you!

you the best. Please lecture us on more other modules or courses.
Dont forget to be awesome

Sony isint a knock off

Very relatable! Great job! I ended up having to swtich my business name, completely re-brand after already investing $5k into the business. I couldn't even sell what I had because another company already owned the name I wanted. Who I originally hired to file the trademark for me said they did research to be sure I was clear but clearly their research was not that great. I got rejected. I came across a different trademark company who I then hired to help me re-brand. They did comprehensive research, which is when you research for similarities at the federal, state and common law level. Long story short, they did a great job and now I have reached registration. It's been a roller coaster. Please be sure you get comprehensive research before starting your business!!!! The struggle of not investing into your business sooner is not worth it.

Thanks for your knowledge. Knowledge that isn't shared is lost forever.

I love this video! I wish I had seen it before I started my business years ago because I got a cease and desist and had to change my company name. So, this time I did what is called comprehensive research. There was no way I was going to to change my name again. The new name I thought up was proved by the trademark company, not to be available, so the next name we researched and it was available. At least it only cost a a few hundred $, and a week, instead 4 years and $230,000 in lost sales. Sure it cost more to hire a research company, but when I saw the hundreds of pages of research that was done, and went over it with a trademark attorney - we knew we'd be able to keep the new name.

Thanks for making this series!! I am learning about these topics for my job and this was a great introduction. :)

Great AND very entertaining introduction video about trademarks! The only thing to add is the need to do what is called COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH first to avoid infringement of existing goods and services in sound, appearance and meaning - when starting a business.

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We provide services related to the registration of trademark, copyright, patent and design in Pakistan.

You copied a lot of the content (word for word) from the Examples and Explanations section on trademarks.

Thank you for the awesome educative helpful videos.

So, if I wanted to make a game company named using the term creamsicle (not alone— just as a part of the name) would that count and infringement? It’s just cream and sickle, so i’m confused. Also, what if I spelled it creamsickle? That’s not trademarked, and my goal would not be even close to impersonating them.

I want to get trademark for instagram

MY TRADE MARK - INGENUITY-MAGS-PROCESS. (IMP)

Give this man a cookie.

Clorox = bleach in spanish+"X"

On T-Shirts designs, I see people TM part of the phrase and try and control every variation. Example; The may TM "Cute Bunnies Are Born",,,,,,,,,,,, but they are trying to own every variation you can think of. Cute bunnies are born in January, Feb., March, 1995, 2000, in the Spring and so on. What do you think of this??

now something like the recipes for the 11 spices used for KFC and the formula for Coca-Cola would be a trademark or trade secret?

So True!

can you do a video on llc and other types of companys. your explinations are great and i love the channel

wait wouldn't google be an arbitrary mark because it was a number originally

Fantastic series of videos. I wish I had this about a year ago when I spent hours of research on Copyright and IP. Thank you!

Adidas's 3 stripes logo is stupid. I'm about to get sued.

google is a number or not?

Shouldn't trademarks only apply to the physical goods and services themselves? It really seems kinda over the top to punish someone for using the Apple logo in their video or forcibly shutting down a business for having a similar name. Anything beyond an identifier to know what you're really buying seems excessive to me.