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It is always important to protect yourself and your assets as a business owner of a home business opportunity online. One of the first ways to do this is by getting a trademark approved by the US government in order to protect your company name. This will be important down the road as you get bigger.

To get your trademark set up for your company name you should do so with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. They offer a online form that is called the Trademark Electronic Application System or the TEAS that will allow for you to take care of most of the application online.

You will probably have to pay around $325 to get the trademark, but that depends on what you want to get done. If this is your first time going through this process make sure that you have thorough help with this. The USPTO actually gives an all day phone number that you can call whenever you want to assist people with questions that they have about filing for a trademark.

They can only take you so far so I suggest that you get a trademark lawyer that can do the rest for you. There are plenty of trademark lawyers out there that will help you through this whole process and develop a brand that is very unique from other brands that are out there. They can also help with your thought process to make sure that you are filling it out right.

This can be overwhelming and the approval process can be tedious because it can take several months for them to approve or not approve this trademark. They can be denied if they feel that your name is too general or if you are infringing upon another companies trademark.

Whether you are an American citizen or not there is little to worry about because you can still fill out the application either way. You will need to have an EIN number if you don’t have a SSN. If you are out of the states you can actually have a representative like a lawyer fill out the form and in behalf of you.

Before you have completed the process make sure that you have a name that is very arbitrary because you don’t want to have to go through this process again down the road because you have changed products or business philosophies. Make it easy on yourself initially so you don’t put yourself into a corner.

When you have finished this process take joy in it because you have now staked your claim to intellectual property. This could be the beginning of a wonderful future for your brand not having to worry about legal liabilities.

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