Should I trademark my blog name?
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Should I trademark my blog name?
I started a blog calles
Yoga of the Day that
offers a daily
meditation, yoga
sequence, and off the
mat tips. I was
wondering if I should
trademark the name or
simply file the name
with the state I
reside.
Asked on November 8, 2017 under Business Law, Kansas
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 6 years ago | Contributor
To protect the name from use other than in your state, you need to trademark it. (Filing--i.e. registering the name as a business name--in your state *only* protects against someone else in your state attemptig to register the same name.) Since a blog is on the internet and so goes out *everywhere*, protection limited to your state is likely inadequate; you should therefore try to trademark it.
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