Trademark

So under the Madrid Treaty, any countries that is under that, basically you can use the same first date of use as priority in that country in order to get the trademark in the country where you want to operate in.

So, and this may seem like a silly question, but I'm sure other people have this.

I see TM, I see an R with a circle around it.

I see SM.

What are those different marks intend to designate?

Yes.

And that's one of the more common questions that I get all the time.

So TM is, anybody can use TM.

Hey, hey, I'm Chelsea Fournier, U.S.

Trademark Attorney for business owners and thought leaders.

I help you balance the creativity and protectability so that you can move out into the world creating and providing your work and thinking strategically about how to protect your brand.

This is Trademarks with Chelsea, one real question answered every episode.

And today's question is, what can a professional speaker protect with a trademark? If you found your way to this episode because you are a professional speaker, maybe being hired to speak or do keynotes or emceeing at conferences, at events, you might have heard colleagues or friends talking about protecting their IP, making sure that they're protecting their brand so that there's a less likelihood of someone copying them or riding on the coattails of what they've built for a reputation and around their name and the quality of work they provide in the Now, I want you to picture the most recent event that you spoke at.

Think about how your brand and your name are brought into the mix of the event itself.

So if you're listening to this and you're not necessarily being booked for keynote stages and like flying across the country and speaking every other week, that's okay.

But if you are at that level, this is definitely going to be relevant for you too.

having a hard time of things.

Trademark, trademark woofers.

I got better.

No, you got it, Harry.

Yes.

TM.

Trademark.

Trademark.

Thank you.

So, Deep V Jeans TM...

the V would be at the front.

Okay.

The same deception operates in markets for counterfeit branded goods.

A fake purse bearing a designer's trademark or sunglasses carrying a copied brand logo trade on someone else's identity and reputation.

Manufacturing and selling those counterfeits is illegal.

Calling the product a replica doesn't give the seller permission to use that brand's trademark.

A buyer knowing it's fake doesn't make the counterfeit trade lawful.

An inexpensive bag or a similar style isn't automatically counterfeit.

You know, any tips you want to leave my entrepreneurs, my insiders, my influencers...

Trademark, trademark, trademark.

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think people have this connotation like, I need to be a millionaire.