What website can I check regarding patents and copyrights of names and phrases?
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Copyright is not that difficult for a person to research for himself.  But patents require a well-trained, experienced patent attorney.  It's quite a specialty, and an important one.  If anyone who has an engineering degree, hardware or software, wants to go to law school, the intersection of that education should make you very, very wealthy.  And justly so, for it is a very important specialty.\n\nBut copyright, as I say, you can research for yourself pretty well.  Here's my all-purpose recommendation for questions having to do with "people's law," if you will:  Nolo Press.  They've been doing it for a lot of years, and they are good at it (like me?).  Their web site includes a free "shark talk" dictionary, which is their somewhat biased (or at least defensive) term for legal dictionary.  That will get you on the right track, I am sure.
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I am afraid the other respondent (jtucker...) is completely wrong, apparently knowing just enough to be dangerous by offering incorrect advice on legal matters.\n\nCreative writing can be copyrighted.  Even slogans or other very short writings have been deemed unprotectible by copyright by the courts, because the degree of creativity in them is so small and the likelihood of true originality is minimal.  Your one-word wonder could technically be copyrighted, but you have about zero chance of enforcing the copyright.  You should save the $35 filing fee.\n\nTrademarks are only valid if used to designate the origin of a product or service that is currently available on the market.  A personality won't suffice.  Therefore, even if you were willing to spend the hundreds of dollars to register your trademark federally, you would probably find yourself unable to complete the process, because it requires you to identify the product or service you are describing with the mark.  It sounds like you've got very little here that would be really enforceably yours -- at least so far, since we should all hope good things for you.  Once you've started doing something more, then the way you identify yourself might begin to develop some value.\n\nCheck out some legal information websites like findlaw.com for questions like these.  It's shocking how wrong some of the answers you see on this site sometimes are.
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http://www.uspto.gov/teas/index.html
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You want to check with the Division of Corporations within your state, however another big concern is to also check existing trademarks with the Unites States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).  Why you may ask?  Even though a company and its name, which are created by the laws of the respective state, may not be in direct conflict with any other company of that state, you may run into problems later with trademark issues of other companies from other states with similar names.  Trademarks are usually registered with the USPTO and they provide a search engine online at uspto.gov .  It is worth checking, to avert future lawsuits of trademark dilution or unsavory business practices with regard to trademark infringement of a company that you did not know had a similar name or logo, albeit you should have known in terms of the law when such trademarks are federally registered.  Remember, companies are created by each state, and your state will only check to see if that company name is registered in the state; so be prudent and check the trademarks of other companies!!!
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Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights are three types of intellectual property protection. They are different and serve different purposes. Patents protect inventions, and improvements to existing inventions. Trademarks include any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination, used, or intended to be used in commerce to identify and distinguish the goods of one manufacturer or seller from goods manufactured or sold by others, and to indicate the source of the goods. Service marks include any word, name, symbol, device, or any combination, used, or intended to be used, in commerce, to identify and distinguish the services of one provider from services provided by others, and to indicate the source of the services. Copyrights protect literary, artistic, and musical works. For general information, publications and other copyright related topics, you may visit their Web site at http://www.copyright.gov. Copyrights information can be obtained from the U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20559 or you may call 202 707-3000 or 202 707-6737 (TTY).
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words you can't copyright an idea
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goto state website, and search for corporation name search.
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There has been some serious debate over exactly what you are referencing here. As far as I know, search engines are not required to do this as of yet. \n\nMy links below refer to Google's official information regarding copyrighting and some other interesting topics on search engines and copyrighting.
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USPTO database shows the issued patents and published applications http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
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Get some info on song copyrighting......ASAP.
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Go to the Patent Site.
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Patents are searchable on USPTO site, http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html\n\nA search by the inventor's name, if you know it, is a good place to start.
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namesdatabase.com\nOR\npeoplesearch
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GoDaddy has a copyright form @ https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/copyright/landing_choice.asp?se=%2B&ci=282
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copyrighted,ketchup,uncopyrighted
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In the United States (and the law is similar in most countries), it isn't copyright that you need to worry about. Single words and titles aren't copywrited.  However, the word "entmoot" from the Lord of the Rings is probably subject to trademark protections, even though it may not be registered as a trademark.  The law can be complicated, and many tests are applied, but the basic question asked in trademark is whether the mark (in this "entmoot") is associated with the previous user and could cause confusion in a customer when the customer sees it used by the new user. That is, would someone buying a product with "entmoot" in the title assume that the product is associated with Tolkien/ Lord of the Rings because of the word.  I think they probably would, myself.\n\nThe US Trademark Office and Copyright Office have some useful information online if you want to pursue the question.  http://www.uspto.gov/main/faq/index.html
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depending of country where this logo/trademark will be registered\n\nPatent and trademark information in the United States:\nhttp://www.uspto.gov/\n\nThe International Trademark Association (INTA)\nhttp://www.inta.org