Trademark Registration Process

[acristo]

Has anyone here been through the Trademark Registration Process ?
Any suggestion ?

[Sebastian]

Why register a trademark if you can us TM?

[acristo]

I'm sorry... what do you mean Sebastian ?

[Sebastian]

â,,¢ = trademark
® = REGISTERED trademark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark#Establishing_trademark_rights
This means you basically can establish a trademark through use. Or for example you've got the trademark "CatChat". If you register the domain catchat.com on March 13th 2008 and put your website on it using CatChatâ,,¢ then the domain registration is a kind of file record and you might be able to sue a company that starts CatChat on CatChat.net if it directly competes with you.

[Hemlos]

Hi acristo,

Here is the formal resource for registering:

http://www.uspto.gov/web/trademarks/workflow/start.htm