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Trademark Clearance

Find out whether you can own your brand name, and establish your claim to it, before anything gets printed.

Almost everything you build from here attaches to your brand name: label artwork, the domain, ad accounts, the Amazon listing, packaging, reviews and whatever recognition you pay to build.

This module finds out whether the name is available before you spend money that assumes it is. A search shows who is already using the name, or something close enough to matter. A federal application then dates your claim from the day you file instead of the day you make your first sale.

What this module covers

  1. 1Bring Five to Eight Candidates
  2. 2Run the Knockout Search Yourself
  3. 3Search Where the USPTO Doesn't Look
  4. 4Judge by Likelihood of Confusion
  5. 5Buy the Opinion Before You Buy the Label
  6. 6File Intent-to-Use Before You Go Public
  7. 7Register the Name Everywhere Else
7 steps with the reasoning behind eachIncludes a working tool that saves your numbers

The full module is in The Foundry

The Foundry opens early January. Join the waitlist to hear first, and read the free lessons in the meantime.