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Intellectual Property

How To Compete Online – Trademark Generic Industry Phrases

From the U.S. Patent and Trademark website, discovered by searching reputation management in the U.S. trademark database.
Word Mark INTERNET REPUTATION MANAGEMENT
Goods and Services IC 035. US 100 101 102. G & S: On-line advertising and marketing services. FIRST USE: 20090105. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20090105
Standard Characters Claimed
Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Serial [...]

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Patent Pending: Placing a Link to a Gift in an E-Card

I just performed a search on the U.S. Patent Office website using only the word “social”.
Why did I do that? I did it because scanning a number of recently “beta released” social networking websites I was reminded of a concern I expressed several years ago, that the USPTO was granting patents to the evolution [...]

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