Domain Name and US Trademark
I have more or less decided on my domain name (something like borneotropicalvacations.com), but before I go ahead and register it, I follow what the Action Guide said - check not only on its availability but also on its legality.
Luckily, SBI! has a little tool called Search It! which allows me to perform a legality check on trademark and registered names on top of many other ecommerce-related search resources.
Checking SearchIt, I found that "Tropical Vacation" and "Tropical Vacations" are both US trademark-ed.
Since it's better to be 100% sure and to be safe than sorry later, I inquired about this issue at, where else, the SBI Forum.
Debs from debtsteps.com was kind enough to reply to quash all my concerns as follows:
Luckily, SBI! has a little tool called Search It! which allows me to perform a legality check on trademark and registered names on top of many other ecommerce-related search resources.
Checking SearchIt, I found that "Tropical Vacation" and "Tropical Vacations" are both US trademark-ed.
Since it's better to be 100% sure and to be safe than sorry later, I inquired about this issue at, where else, the SBI Forum.
Debs from debtsteps.com was kind enough to reply to quash all my concerns as follows:
Richard, trademarks are marks (graphical representations), not words; so it is ikely they have a service mark using those words; generic words cannot be copyright protected or trademarked, otherwise we would have no words to write
Now, if they had taken the two words and made a new, original word like Tropications that would be protectible as a unique word.
Debs
Thank you Debs. Tropications, now..., that's an interesting word!
posted by e-borneo.com @ 12:30 am
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