You never want your trademark used generically, which is where the product and the name are synonymous, because then the mark becomes used as a noun.

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The first mocks would-be entrepreneurs who fail to act on their ideas (solution: we make it easy to protect your new trademark).

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You should be able to sit at your PC and enter your proposed trademark and in about a 20th of a second get an answer back through one of the public databases on the network.

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It has come to our attention that your Twitter account is in violation of Twitter's trademark policy.

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But passing the compatibility test is not enough to call your device an Android device, because Android is a trademark.

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Still, I wouldn't invest your life savings in a new line of Rae's Creek ball retrievers before conducting a more exhaustive trademark-clearance search.

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