Trademarks The Fingerprints Of Commerce

Includes: What is a Trademark?, A World Without Trademarks?, Procedures for Obtaining a Federal Registration, "The Rap On Trademarks", Note to Educators, Tips for Creating Your Trademark, Activities: Make Your Mark On The World Exercises, Trademark Owners and Federal Registration Numbers. Activities "use creative thinking skills and knowledge of human nature to create and design trademarks and service marks."

Six videos are now available from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: Conducting a Search at a PTDL, The PTO Today, From Dreams to Reality - a Tribute to Minority Inventors -- Project XL -- Trademarks: the Fingerprints of Commerce -- Dreams and Discovery - the National Inventors Hall of Fame Video.

This content provides basic facts about trademarks, and provides tips on how to perform trademark searches, guidance for finding private trademark attorneys, and offers how and why to register a trademark.