State vs. Federal Trademarks, Which is Right for Your Business? - IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law https://ipwatchdog.com/2017/11/25/state-federal-trademarks-right-business/ Trusted on intellectual property law. News and commentary on patents, innovation policy, trade secrets, copyrights and trademarks. Sat, 25 Nov 2017 15:11:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 State vs. Federal Trademarks, Which is Right for Your Business? https://ipwatchdog.com/2017/11/25/state-federal-trademarks-right-business/ https://ipwatchdog.com/2017/11/25/state-federal-trademarks-right-business/#comments Sat, 25 Nov 2017 12:15:07 +0000 https://ipwatchdog.com/?p=90214 Not all trademarks are created equal. While every state allows you to obtain a trademark registration, a federal trademark registration provides the greatest rights. This is because when you obtain a United States federal trademark your rights will exist throughout the country, and not just in one particular geographic locality. With a state trademark you obtain rights to your immediate geographical area only, not the entire state, which is an important consideration... This does not, however, mean that state trademarks are useless. It does mean that you should not only obtain a state trademark.

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