how can i patent a logo? can you do it over the internet, whats the cost, it should be affordable right?
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You would not patent a logo but rather, you would trademark a logo in connection with particular goods/services.\n\nA Federal trademark is $325 per International Class. State fees vary; I posted a link to a directory of Secretary of States -- find your state & click. The info for the cost of a State trademark will be there.\n\nPrior to investing your time, money & effort into a logo, it is strongly advised that comprehensive research be conducted to ensure that the logo you're interested in is truly available. \n\nI posted some links that should help to get you started on your way. I wish you much success & happiness in all your endeavors!
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I don't know what to tell you other than what happened to me. I paid $500 for a patent search. The company told me that this was a great idea and nothing else like it was on the market. They could get me a patent and help me present it to people who could make it. I would make X-amount of dollars and would be rich (lol). The patent cost me another $5,000.\nThey did get me a patent. A Design Patent. This patent just covers what the product looks like, not how it works. If you design a telephone with the buttons in a certain place, this is a Design Patent. What makes it work (the guts to it) is a Utility Patent. Someone can come along and change the way that it looks, you're out of luck. \nCheck with BBB and past clients. \nI felt ripped off and that was 14 years ago, I still see their ads on television everyday. Every ones idea is a winner, just watch "American Inventor". Be careful!!
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Design your own logo, and make sure it's not too much like the company's logo, or you'll be sued.
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If you are talking about a logo, you probably need to be more concerned with infringing on a trademark, not a copyright.  The only way to really know if you are infringing on someone else's mark is to do a trademark search.  The breadth of the search will depend on how extensively you intend to use your mark.  For example, if you are only going to use it locally (in your city, and maybe state), then a statewide search should be enough.  If you intend to use it broadly (e.g. all across a country, or the world), you would need to do a bigger search.\n\nEach state in the US has an agency that registers trademarks, and some of them have search services you can use, sometimes for a fee.  The US Patent and Trademark Office has a website (http//www.uspto.gov) where you can do a basic search for trademarks registered there, but it is not exhaustive.  If it is something you really want to do and you intend to use your logo for a long time and make it an integral part of a serious business, you should hire an attorney or paralegal to do the search for you.
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I don't think you can get a patent for images, but you can copyright them.  And no, not all images are copyrighted - but some are.  If they are, usually there will be a copyright warning either on the page or on the image itself.
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You need to speak to an intellectual property lawyer first.  I used to work for a great IP firm (you know, before the Internet, everyone knew that IP = Intellectual Property...now, IP = Internet Protocol, ie, "What's your IP address?")\n\nClick on this link and talk to the folks at RatnerPrestia.  They've done work for mom & pop inventors, and some of the largest companies around (including Microsoft, and Matsushita -- also known in America as "Panasonic").\n\nGood luck!  IP Lawyers are all engineer-types...they're not just lawyers...they know how to take your idea and first find out if it's already been patented, and secondly they know how to convince a patent examiner (the folks in Washington who decide if you get a patent or not) that your idea does, indeed, merit a patent.
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It will cost you and you need to send it away to the copyright offices. I'm not sure how it done in India, but here in North America, you have to mail the design to yourself as proof that it is yours.
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You can do this at the US Copyright Office. The application is fairly simple & the cost is $30 per application (it will likely rise to $45 by July 1).\n\nI posted direct links at the US Copyright Office as well as some handy resource sites.\n\nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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Your new product should fall into one of these categories...\n\nThere are three types of patents: \n\n1) Utility patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof; \n\n2) Design patents may be granted to anyone who invents a new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture; and \n\n3) Plant patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant. \n\nDefinitely contact an intellectual property attorney. Also, read more about patents at the USPTO site & at Nolo. I listed the links.\n\nI also listed some handy marketing links.\n\nDo you have a name in mind for your product? Prior to investing your time, money & effort into a name, it is strongly advised that comprehensive research be conducted to ensure that the name you're interested in is truly available. \n\nThis entails searching the pending & registered Federal and State trademark files as well as the US National Common-Law files. Then, if clear, you can decide if you would like to file for a Federal or a State trademark. \n\nResearch is needed to make sure your trade name is legally available, before opening, before expansion, before incorporation or before designing your logo. Similarities in sound, appearance and meaning affect you too!\n\nThere are 16+ million trade names in use in the United States. Similar names matter, if close in sound, appearance or meaning. Similar names in related classes, distribution channels and customer matter too. You are affected by Common Law use (14 million), State Trademarks (500,000) and Federal Trademarks (2 million). \n\n\nHope that helps!
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You cannot patent and idea, but you can develop the idea into a product, record and research its worth and then if you have something unique or novel or even a new use for a similar design, you may get a patent on that... Check our www.inventconnect.com.au and list your idea for free on there...
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Hi!\nActually you do not need any kind of licensing to do this, but I would recommend you to register your pictures under Copyrights that way you can avoid "somehow" people to copy your artwork! :) Additionally if you are seriously planning to do create this kind of business you are talking to the right person as I'm a professional web-designer, because I can make online-payments before downloads! :) Just contact me : gio@gomezsolutions.com. Take care!
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Don't worry about who is doing it, an agent or an attorney.  Just go to several patent firms and get a quote.  Several people will probably be working on it anyway.  It will be expensive no matter where you go.
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You cannot gaurantee anything without a patent. If you have faith in your idea then you should be confident in paying for the patent.
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Go to the website of the company you're interested in, and look for a logo. Right-click, and pick "save picture as...". You'll have the logo in a file.
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Check out the Small Business Administration web site -- they're a great resource for the small business owner. I listed a couple of other handy links as well.\n\nTry reading up on the subject -- check out Amazon, your local bookstore or library. \n\nPrior to investing your time, money & effort into a business name, it is strongly advised that comprehensive research be conducted to ensure that the name you're interested in is truly available. \n\nThis entails searching the pending & registered Federal and State trademark files as well as the US National Common-Law files. Then, if clear, you can decide if you would like to file for a Federal or a State trademark. \n\nResearch is needed to make sure your trade name is legally available, before opening, before expansion, before incorporation or before designing your logo. Similarities in sound, appearance and meaning affect you too!\n\nThere are 16+ million trade names in use in the United States. Similar names matter, if close in sound, appearance or meaning. Similar names in related classes, distribution channels and customer matter too. You are affected by Common Law use (14 million), State Trademarks (500,000) and Federal Trademarks (2 million). \n\nI wish you much success & happiness in all your endeavors!
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Personally i'll start with the humble pen and paper. Try to sketch out your ideas for your logo on paper before anything else, that way when you have a rough idea of what you want, transferring logo from paper to screen pretty simple. And if your logo design is really simple, using the Paint program in windows itself would do.\n\nHowever if you have really no idea how to start designing, suggest you do a search for free logos and use them as a reference or inspiration for your own design.\n\nhttp://www.interspire.com/templates/category/57\n\nGood luck.
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You can't.  Just pick a nice font, type the name of your company and you're sorta good to go until you can actually pay for a graphic designer to make you one.  You can also ask a friend who knows art or graphic arts to make you one.