Trademark: Legal Care for Your Business & Product Name

by Stephen Elias and Kate McGrath

Essential for all small business owners, this book shows how to choose, use and protect the names and symbols that identify their services or products. This newly revised third edition contains all... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873373960
• ISBN13: 9780873373968
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: NOLO
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.4" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

book review trademarks

Perfect book to explain trademarks in simple, easy language. Now I feel like i really understand it. GREAT book!

Step by step trademark application

I needed a book that not only explained trademarks, the different types and rules and regulations, but also up-to-date step-by-step instructions on how to apply for one. This book was perfect - even has current screenshots from the US gov trademark website. I read the book in 2 evenings, followed the instructions, and currently have a pending trademark. Saved me over a thousand bucks in legal fees if I had a lawyer do it - and it's so simple, if you just have a little knowledge which this book provides. Well worth the very minor cost. Highly recommended.

Good reference book for the rest of us.

Nolo Press once again did not disappoint me. I was looking for basic information about the Trademark process and they provided a description in "plain-English" that walked me through the process, defined terms, even offered some advice on how to handle disputes. Good reference for us non-lawyers!

Good Introduction for the Non-Professional

This book is an excellent introduction to the concepts of trademarks. It's in its seventh edition, so it's been around long enough to get errors worked out and up to date enough to reflect the latest legal changes. This book is a good introduction to trademark law. It seems to fit into two categories. If you're working for a big company (or a company that wants to grow big) use this for its information value and then go get professional trademark help from a specialist attorney. If you're a little company like me, this is probably all that you need. For a dozen years I've owned the domain name [...]. I got a nasty letter from the attorney for Doubleday Book Clubs saying that I was infringing on their domain name of [...] and that they wanted me to stop. I wrote back to them and said that I wasn't infringing because I didn't run a book club, my pages didn't look at all like theirs, etc. I never heard from them again. Mr. Elias, if you happen to read this, in your next edition, I'd like to see you expand Chapter 2 on domain names. They haven't replaced trademarks, but are becomming more and more important.

Very useful background information for laymen

This is a great resource for marketing professionals, entrepreneurs, and non-trademark attorneys to understand the basics of trademark law. However, this book is no substitute for professional legal advice from an experienced trademark attorney when it comes to protection a property that is becoming scarce and more valuable as business migrates into the online world.