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Should I Trademark My Business Name or My Logo?

by Clifford D. Hyra on August 31, 2011

Trademarks protect branding- things like your business name and your logo that you put on your products so that your customers know they are not knock-offs or imitations. For a really big business, a brand is worth big bucks and the cost of a trademark registration is small in comparison. So for a big company it is a no brainer to register all their branding- business name, logos, slogans, even names of individual product lines. But smaller businesses are often working on a limited budget. The benefits of trademark registration are not so obviously greater than the cost of registration, which can be close to a thousand dollars, depending on the difficulty of registering the trademark and the law firm used. So, many business owners decide that they want to limit their registration to a single trademark, and are left with a decision between registering their business name and their logo.

Registering Your Business Name as a Trademark

Usually, I recommend registering your business name if you are only going to register one trademark. A business name should be registered with a "standard character claim," meaning that your registration covers your name regardless of the font, case, and any stylistic or graphic elements used. This gives you broad protection and prevents an infringer from claiming no confusion would be likely because its mark uses a different font, etc. Registering your business name with a standard character claim protects you against any use of the name, inside or outside of a logo or design. And for many businesses, their name is the most important thing to protect. After all, your name is what people use when discussing or referring your business to others. And if your logo is minimalist, the other visual elements may not be that memorable anyway. The downside of trademarking your business name alone is that it offers no protection for the design elements of your logo. You still may have common-law rights to your logo, but you would lack the important benefits of trademark registration. Another business could begin using a similar logo with a different business name, and that could be difficult for you to stop.

Registering Your Logo as a Trademark

The advantage of registering your logo is that it protects both the design elements of your logo and your business name (assuming that your logo incorporates your business name). However, there are many disadvantages. For one thing, your protection for your name will be somewhat weakened. Another business seeking to register a logo with a similar name can argue that confusion would be unlikely because of the design differences between the two marks. Such an argument can succeed, particularly if your business name might be considered descriptive of the business you are in. I have successfully made such arguments, and even have advised clients that they could get around a third-party registration if they registered their brand with a certain stylization or design element. Another potential problem is that logos can change over the  years. Even the largest corporations rebrand once in a while. When your logo changes, your old logo trademark registration goes out the window. Now you have to file a new registration for your new logo. Your old registration, if it was in use for five  years, may have become incontestable, greatly strengthening it in legal disputes. Your new registration will not be.

Register Your Business Name - Usually

For the above reasons, I usually recommend that my clients register their business names if they only want to file one registration. An exception might be if their name could run into a conflict that their logo would have a better chance of avoiding, or if the design element of their logo is critical or especially distinctive. However, even if you really like and want to protect the design element of your logo, I would strongly suggest looking into registering both your logo and your business name alone. If you have any questions about the costs vs. benefits, I would be happy to help you answer them!

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How Can I Correct the Inventors Listed on a Provisional Patent Application?

by Clifford D. Hyra on June 29, 2011

Listing the correct inventors on your patent application is important. Having an incorrect listing can result in invalidity or unenforceability of your patent, loss of ownership rights, and other serious issues. Determining the correct inventorship for a patent application is a legal matter that should be determined by your patent attorney. Two types of errors can be made with regard to inventorship, misjoinder and nonjoinder. Misjoinder is where a person listed as an inventor is not actually an inventor. Nonjoinder is where an actual inventor is not listed as an inventor. If there is no intent to deceive on the part of the person improperly listed or not listed, these errors can be corrected either while the patent application is still pending or after issuance of the patent. However, correction should be made as soon as possible. If the list of inventors is erroneous due to an attempt at deception by the improperly named or unnamed inventors, the application's inventorship cannot be corrected. In some circumstances, the inventorship of an issued patent can be corrected in spite of a deceptive intent, although the patent may be unenforcable (that will be addressed in a future post). The procedure for correcting a provisional patent application is explained below. The procedure for nonprovisional applications differs, and will be explored in a future post.

Provisional Patent Applications

The inventorship of a provisional patent application can be corrected relatively easily. See 37 CFR §1.48(d)-(e).

Improper Nonjoinder in a Provisional Patent Application (37 CFR §1.48(d)):

To add inventors improperly omitted from a provisional patent application, the following items must be submitted:
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The request should identify the inventors being added and state that the error occurred without a deceptive intent on the part of those inventors. This request can be signed by the prosecuting patent attorney.

Improper Misjoinder in a Provisional Patent Application (37 CFR §1.48(e)):

To remove inventors improperly included on a provisional patent application, the following items must be submitted:
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Should I File a Provisional or Nonprovisional Patent Application?

by Clifford D. Hyra on May 31, 2011

Perhaps the question that I address most frequently with my clients is whether to file a provisional or nonprovisional  patent application. A nonprovisional application is an ordinary patent application. A provisional patent application is a special kind of application that is not examined or published, has minimal formal requirements, and expires 12 months after filing. Before the provisional patent application expires, a full nonprovisional patent application should be filed, claiming the "priority" (filing date) of the provisional patent application. If the provisional patent application adequately describes the invention claimed in the later nonprovisional application, the nonprovisional patent application will be entitled to the same filing date as the provisional application. Thus, the applicant does not need to worry about someone duplicating his invention in the interim. So if you have to file a nonprovisional patent application eventually anyway, what is the point of filing a provisional patent application? Click below to read on...

Advantages of Provisional Patent Applications

  1. Low Up-Front Cost - Because provisional patent applications have few formal requirements, less time needs to be spent perfecting the figures, drafting the claims section (which is not even required), etc. A provisional application also has lower government fees. Therefore, a provisional patent application is typically significantly less costly than a nonprovisional patent application.

  2. Buys You Time - A provisional patent application buys you an extra 12 months before having to spend the time and money to put together a full nonprovisional patent application. During that time you can look for partners, manufacturers or distributors, funding, etc. You can even do market research or bring your product to market to help determine whether your new product idea is commercially viable.

  3. Ease of Adding New Material - Whenever you file the nonprovisional application, you can include whatever new material you like without difficulty. If you want to get the earliest possible filing date for the new material, you can even file one or more additional provisional applications for the new material and then file a single nonprovisional patent application that combines all of your provisional patent applications. In contrast, to add new subject matter to a nonprovisional patent application, a continuation-in-part application must be filed, which adds cost and delays examination of the new material.

  4. Lack of Publication - A provisional patent application can be filed at low cost and then simply be allowed to expire if for whatever reason the idea turns out to be non-viable. The application is never published and so does not become public knowledge or bar you from applying for a patent in the future.

  5. Extends Patent Protection - Patent protection lasts 20 years from the time of filing. This time runs from the date of filing of the nonprovisional application, not the provisional application. So by filing a provisional application first, a year is added to the back end of your term of patent protection.

Disadvantages of Provisional Patent Applications

  1. Higher Total Cost - Since a nonprovisional patent application must be filed in any case, ultimately the total cost to obtain a patent will be higher if you start with a provisional patent application.

  2. Delays Examination - A provisional patent application is not examined, and your application does not even "get in line" for examination until your nonprovisional patent application is filed. Thus, if you wait the full year before filing the follow-up nonprovisional, examination will be delayed by one year. With delays of up to 4 years at the time of this post, the extra delay can be a major factor.

  3. Increased Risk for Small Entities - The lack of formal requirements encourages disreputable companies and patent attorneys and agents to take advantage of the lack of sophistication of many small entities. Beware low-priced providers like Legal Zoom who promise "provisional protection" for a few hundred dollars. If your provisional application does not provide proper legal support for the claims written into your later nonprovisional patent application, you will lose your original filing date, wasting your money and opening the door for challenges to the patentability of your application and to the validity of any granted patent.

Provisional Patent Application Recommendations

For most of my small entity clients, I recommend that they start with a provisional patent application. Usually they are still developing their invention or looking to stake out their rights inexpensively before doing a thorough investigation of the feasibility of their product in the market. A provisional application gives them the flexibility, low cost, and early filing date they are looking for. On the other hand, if an invention is fully fleshed out and ready to go, and the client knows it wants to go forward with the entire patent process, a full nonprovisional patent application is the way to go. Skipping the provisional application results in lower overall costs and in a granted patent as quickly as possible. The other thing I always recommend is that, if the client opts for a provisional patent application, the provisional application be as thorough as possible in order to avoid problems down the road. I recommend a full write-up including some broad claims and decent figures, even though the cost is higher than going through Legal Zoom or a similar outfit. Bringing a new product to market is an expensive process, and the largest expenses are not generally on the patent side. It's worth the expense to do a thorough job on the provisional application and ensure adequate support for your nonprovisional.

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How Can I Accelerate My Trademark Application?

by Clifford D. Hyra on April 28, 2011

A typical trademark application takes about 7 months from filing to the issuing of a registration certificate (as of 2011) if the application does not run into any problems. An application with any issues is likely to take longer, more like 12-18 months, which is the estimate the Trademark Office gives. Compared to patent applications, where applicants will sometimes have to wait four years for anything to happen, this is lightning quick action. However, it is still a long time for many business owners who would like some certainty before entering the marketplace with a new brand. Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to speed up the examination of your trademark applications? Well there is, but it can be taken advantage of only in limited situations.

Trademark Application Request to Make Special

Sometimes a trademark owner or trademark attorney slips up and allows a registration to expire inadvertently, by failing to file a declaration of continued use or renewal by a deadline. In those circumstances, the only remedy is to file a new application for the expired trademark registration. However, while the application is pending, the expired mark will not be registered. The owner will be unable to use the ® symbol or take advantage of the other benefits of registration, such as federal court. An owner of an established brand would really like to have that registration back now, not in 7 months or more. Fortunately, new applications for registrations that have expired inadvertently will be made special at the request of the applicant under TMEP § 702.02. After the application is filed, a request to make special can be filed electronically at no cost and the application will be accelerated to the front of the line automatically. This reduces the time to registration by at least about three months.

Trademark Application Petition to Make Special

A petition to make special under TMEP § 1710 can be filed for any trademark application after it has been filed. A petition to make special must be accompanied by a $100 fee (as of the date of this post), an explanation of why special action is requested, and a statement of facts supported by an affidavit or declaration that shows that special action is justified. Essentially, you have to show that you have a real need to get a registration quickly beyond the need that every trademark owner has to get on with business. Reasons that are typically accepted include the existence of actual or threatened trademark infringement, pending litigation, or the need for a registration as a basis for securing a foreign trademark registration. While these will not apply to every applicant, they are common enough that brand managers and trademark attorneys should be aware of the option and requirements. A granted petition to make special will accelerate a trademark application just like a request to make special, reducing the time to registration substantially.

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by Clifford D. Hyra on March 17, 2011

In many instances, you may want a competitor or potential competitor's application for a trademark registration to be refused by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). However, trademark examinations are ex parte- strictly between the applicant and the Examining Attorney assigned to the application. Third parties are not allowed to communicate with the Examining Attorney, even if there is an obvious basis for the application to be refused, such as a conflict with an existing registration or if the mark is clearly descriptive. An application can be opposed or canceled after it is approved, but such proceedings are essentially litigation, with high costs and long delays. Fortunately, the USPTO allows for an end-run around the ex parte restriction with a seldom-used and poorly known mechanism, the Letter of Protest.

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A letter of protest allows a third party to submit evidence that a trademark application should be refused to the Office of the Deputy Commissioner for Trademark Examination Policy (“Deputy Commissioner”). The Deputy Commissioner then decides whether to grant the letter of protest, in which case the evidence is forwarded on to the Examining Attorney for consideration. Because you never have direct contact with the Examining Attorney and the information is coming from the Deputy Commissioner, the integrity of the ex parte examination process is not compromised. See MPEP § 1715. The letter of protest satisfies the public interest in avoiding the registration of trademarks, which should have been refused, due to  human error on the part of an individual trademark examiner.

What Can and Cannot be the Basis for a Letter of Protest?

A letter of protest can be based on, for example:
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  • Likelihood of Confusion: Notification of an existing trademark registration or prior-pending application and an allegation of likelihood of confusion between this mark and the mark in the application that is being protested
  • Pending Litigation: Pending litigation exists that claims infringement based on the applicant’s use of the applied-for mark
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Letter of Protest Standard of Review and Results

A letter of protest must be granted if the evidence is relevant and may support any reasonable ground for refusal. This is a very low bar, so the likelihood of a properly-filed letter of protest being granted is high. When a letter of protest is granted, the relevant evidence (but not the letter itself) is forwarded to the Examining Attorney for consideration. The Examining Attorney must make an independent determination on the basis of this evidence whether the requested refusal should be issued. A letter of protest relating to an issue already addressed by the Examining Attorney will be dismissed as moot, unless significant new evidence is submitted or the Examining Attorney is clearly in error. Thus, a letter of protest can be a powerful tool for correcting an obvious Examiner mistake. The protestor will receive a response from the Deputy Commissioner granting, denying, or holding moot the letter of protest within 60 days of filing the letter. A denial can be appealed by petitioning the Director to review the Deputy Commissioner’s decision to deny the letter of protest.

Letters of Protest Submitted After an Application's Publication

Letters of protest should be submitted before an application is allowed and published. Once an application has published, a letter of protest will be granted only if publication of the mark constituted clear error because the submitted evidence shows that the mark should have been refused. All letters of protest must be submitted within 30 days of publication unless the evidence submitted could not have been obtained earlier. No letter of protest will be accepted after registration. If a letter of protest is granted after publication, the Examining Attorney must issue the requested refusal of registration, although it is possible in some cases for that to be overcome by the applicant.

Does the Letter of Protest Become Part of the Application's Public Record?

A letter of protest is never entered into an application's public record. If the letter is granted, the evidence submitted therewith will become a part of the record along with a memorandum granting the request. If the Examining Attorney decides against issuing a refusal, a note will be added to the file indicating that the evidence was considered. However, any party may request a copy of a letter of protest, and the letter will ordinarily be provided.

Conclusion

Letters of protest can be a powerful tool in the arsenal of anyone who manages brands. Letters of protest can easily and inexpensively correct mistakes by Examining Attorneys that would otherwise result in costly oppositions and cancellation proceedings. Have your trademark attorney monitor new applications similar to your own applications and registrations, as well as those filed by your competitors. Make sure that any applications that could conflict with your own are nipped in the bud during the examination stage if possible.

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