With new ideas and brands surfacing all of the time, it is
important that creators have a way to protect their work and
maintain an emblem that is unique and cannot be replicated.
Trademarks and Patents both work to protect different kinds of
new creations, each with their own legal rights.
A trademark protects things like symbols, designs, words,
colors, and logos that have been created to identify goods or
services. In order to claim trademark rights, your logo or design
must be new and distinctive, and not too similar to any other mark
that is already being used.
A trademark is most often marked by either a "TM" or
an "R" in a circle symbol to indicate that the creator is
claiming rights over the mark. A trademark does not have to be
registered and can simply be marked with the "TM" to
indicate some level of claim over the mark. However, to fully
protect a logo or trade name from being registered or used by
others, it is best to apply to register it
