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25 Branding Tips

Erik K Pelton

The following is an edited transcript of my video 25 Branding Tips. As we celebrate our 25th year, I am excited to share 25 branding tips with you: Choose a creative name – it’s the foundation you begin with to build a bold brand. Use the proper trademark symbol with your brand (TM, SM, or ®).

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Global Brand Protection – How to Manage an Anti-Counterfeiting Program

IP Tech Blog

For every successful brand, it is critical to properly protect and to productively develop and use the underlying intellectual property (IP) in that brand to ensure its long-term growth. Trademark and registered design portfolio It goes without saying: maintaining a comprehensive trademark portfolio is key.

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MarkIt to Market® - September 2023: How Design Patents Can Complement Brands' Trademark Portfolios

JD Supra Law

Many brand owners are familiar with the value of registered trademarks, which safeguard the goodwill cultivated between mark holders and consumers by reducing confusion as to the source of the associated goods. By: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

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Slow fashion: checkerboard design plausibly infringes another checkerboard design

43(B)log

The solicitations included original clothing designs, lookbooks, and other promotional material meant to highlight the designer’s international acclaim in the fashion industry. Ultimately, the fashion conglomerate did not make time to meet with the designer or decide to work with her. any and all designers and stylists.”

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Guidelines to Using Generative AI as a Branding Tool for Your Business

JD Supra Law

Creating new business and product names, designs, and logos is a daunting task to those looking to launch develop their brands. In addition to wanting something memorable and appealing, trademark attorneys recommend avoiding existing words or phrases in order to create something unique and distinctive within the relevant marketplace.

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Even Trademark Lawyers Make Branding Mistakes

Erik K Pelton

The following is an edited transcript of my video Even Trademark Lawyers Make Branding Mistakes. Believe it or not, even trademark lawyers can make branding–or maybe even trademark mistakes–from time to time. I didn’t want to go down that road because the brand name wasn’t resonating with me.

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How to Water Your Brand for Growth

Erik K Pelton

The following is an edited transcript of my video How to Water Your Brand for Growth. I talk about my lack of green thumb, because it relates to so much of my branding, where I use sunflowers and plantings as metaphors, and I use the tagline, Making Trademarks Bloom Since 1999. Prolific marketing: getting your brand out there.

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