Trademark Services
A "registered trademark" refers to a name, slogan or logo that has been officially registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Each State also offers trademark protection from their Secretaries of State offices. Distinctive design, graphics, logo, symbols, words, or any combination that uniquely identifies a business and/or its goods or services, guarantees the item's genuineness, and gives it owner the legal rights to prevent the trademark's unauthorized use.
To be considered a trademark, the mark must be: (1) distinctive instead of descriptive, (2) affixed to the item sold, and (3) registered with the appropriate authority to obtain legal ownership and protection rights. Trademark rights are granted usually for 7 to 20 years and, unlike in case of patents, are renewable indefinitely.
Registering a trademark is beneficial to any business because it publicly states that your trademark is registered with the USPTO, where people can find you and avoid using your intellectual property. Owning your trademark allows you exclusive rights to your name, slogan or logo and a broader array of potentially similar uses - in sound appearance and meaning within your industry.
Prior to filing for a Federal trademark, comprehensive research of existing and pending State trademarks, USPTO Federal trademarks and Common Law uses and analysis of each is needed to ensure that you are not infringing upon another company's trademark or Common Law rights. You need to know if your name, slogan and/or logo is truly legally available before you file.
COPYRIGHT SERVICES
Registering your copyrights is a critical step in the protection of your original works of authorship. Whether you are an artist, musician, or author, your original works are your assets. Fundamentally, copyright is a law that gives you ownership over the things you create.
Be it a painting, a photograph, a poem or a novel, if you created it, you own it and it’s the copyright law itself that assures that ownership. The ownership that copyright law grants comes with several rights that you, as the owner, have exclusively.
Those rights include:
The right to reproduce the work
to prepare derivative works
to distribute copies
to perform the work
and to display the work publicly
There are your rights and your rights alone. Unless you are willingly give them up through a work for hire or a create commons license, no one can violate them legally.