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When Can I Use The 'TM' Symbol With My Trademark?
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Angela, when can I use the TM with my trademark? I'm going to spend the next two minutes answering this. I'm Angela Langlotz. I go live here on weekdays to talk trademarks and copyright. Ask me any trademark or copyright law questions by dropping them into the comments below.

I'll answer them on a future Live. So someone wants to know, when can I use the TM with my trademark? How soon can I do that? And the answer is whenever you want. Whenever you want to put people on notice that you're using a particular word or phrase or symbol as a trademark, you can put the TM next to your trademark and use that it's intended to put people on notice that you are claiming trademark rights to that word or symbol or phrase, even though you may not have registered it with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

So the answer is anytime you want to put other people on notice, you can use the TM.

Where do you put it most of the time we put it on the right. Sometimes upper right, sometimes lower right. But the convention is that we put it on the right. Why? I don't know.

It's just convention, but you can put it like upper right or lower right wherever you think it looks best. I try to put it someplace where it's kind of in obtrusive. It's not just hanging out looking weird, so feel free to put it where you like it. Best. I'm Angela Langlotz.

If you have trademark or Copyright law questions, just drop them into the comments below and I'll answer them on A Future Live. You can find me online at trademarkdoctor. Net. I'm also on YouTube at video. Trademarkdofter.

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Can I Register My Own Name As A Trademark?

Yes, you can register your own name as a trademark!

Remember that anything can serve as a trademark, so long as it distinguishes your goods and services from another's goods and services. Let's look at an example.

Morgan Freeman owns the trademark MORGAN FREEMAN for "Entertainment services, namely, live, televised and movie appearances by a professional entertainer. " He claims use of this trademark back to 1971. This means that no one else can offer these services or any related services using the MORGAN FREEMAN trademark or any trademark that might be "confusingly similar" to this trademark.

What might be "confusingly similar?" That's hard to specify without actually comparing the proposed mark, but in general, a mark is considered "confusingly similar" if it would confuse the consumer into thinking that the goods or services offered by the owner of the proposed trademark came from the owner of the existing trademark. There doesn't have to be actual confusion shown; a likelihood of confusion is sufficent reason not to issue the proposed trademark.

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