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• Why We Need a Registered Trade Why We Need a Registered Trademark?

  • From: uksolicitor
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    Trademark protection is something that every entrepreneur should be aware of, because trademark registration can play a vital role in the process of establishing a brand name. If you’re finding Solicitors in London for trademarks registration is which one is important form of intellectual property.

     

    A trademark refers to a logo, symbol, name or other device that identifies a particular company. In some jurisdictions, such as the United States, a distinction is made between two types of mark; trademarks and service marks. Trademarks identify physical goods that are manufactured, produced, sold and distributed, whilst service marks identify services that are provided by a company or an individual in exchange for payment.

     

    Trademarks are registered by filing an application with the local trademark office. Registering trademark, once registered, is entitled to use the ® symbol, while unregistered trademarks are sometimes labelled as TM for a trademark or SM for a service mark. A trademark, unlike a patent, can be renewed indefinitely for as long as the company wishes to use it. It is effectively a permanent monopoly right.

     

    A trademark registration means that the company holds the exclusive right to use the image, logo, symbol or name in relation to the type of goods or services for which it was registered. This is an important form of intellectual property. In time, a carefully managed trademark can acquire goodwill, meaning that it is recognised in the marketplace as being indicative of quality goods or services.

     

    As such, it is important for new companies to register trademarks. To register a trademark or service mark, a company must file a correctly completed application form, pay the appropriate fee and submit a copy of the mark to be registered.

     

    Even if a company decides not to register their UK trademarks, they may still be entitled to various rights under the common law (so called unregistered trademark rights). Under this regime, an unregistered trademark that has acquired goodwill will be protected from infringing activities. However, it can be difficult to prove goodwill and the ownership of that goodwill. Every business looking to protect its brand name should consider registering a trademark as a way of avoiding the uncertainty associated with common law trademark litigation.

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• Truth and Deception Truth and Deception

  • From: Chakazuluu
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    As you all know my main concern in this and any other country is moving those that are now Homeless rapidly back into the mainstream and helping to prevent those that are about to become Homeless from entering the condition.

    The problem is that I can talk about how we need more affordable housing, more programs, more federal subsidies for the poor but it doesn't mean a hill of beans because there are core reasons that these things are not done. We need to go much deeper than the subject of Homelessness and address other issues that effect how we treat not only Homelessness but also other maladies of our society.

    Have you ever noticed that when the media shows a Homeless individual or a group of them it is because they have killed someone or trashed a specific area. They also show them laying around in the park, panhandling on the street corners and they also like to show the contrast between the way Homeless and mainstream people dress. You never ever see a homeless person portrayed as being productive, seeking a job, re-emerging back into mainstream, striving to leave the condition behind. Why is this? Have you ever wondered why Homeless people are never portrayed in a positive light in their struggles to re-emerge back into the mainstream?

    The reasons and the whys run deeper into our society than most of us can imagine. We need to leave the surface problems here and step out of the light and go down into the cellar into the caves, crevices and far away from the problems and look at the machinery that perpetuates malaise, apathy and the seeming lack of care by our government and our peoples for those of us that are in less fortunate circumstances.

    Here I am about to embark on a multi-part series that will demonstrate to you as I see it why our country being the most powerful one in the world treats its impoverished citizens as second class peoples.

    Since we started with the media let us continue from there. In a previous blog titled ">Just Because you Don't See Chains Doesn't Mean There isn't Any I talked about how the media affects our perception of violence but it goes much, much deeper than that. The media controls our minds in ways that are so insidious that it effects every aspect of most all our choices and decisions. We are influenced by the media in what cars, cigarettes, clothes we purchase and even down to the mates we choose.

    Read and view another philosophy see what you think of this one:

    Part 2

    Look at the epidemic we had in the US of women and girls attempting image themselves like the skinny models as seen on the runways. These models were setting a standard for beauty that cost our females in the form of bulemia and anorexia. These are horrific eating disorders that effect a female's body in the most adverse ways.

    See below how media has trained us to act or not to act under situations that they control. Watch how anti-male bias is portrayed in the media.

    What you just saw was just a peek at the manipulation process done by the media let us now look at the heavy weights, lets find out not only what their names are but also where from they have derived their power.

    Is the picture becoming clear? The Council on Foreign Relations is the core of the media manipulation process. They are the center around which all media that is being produced circles. We may need to look deeper into this in a future blog.

    Now if big media can gobble all the small media players they can have total control over all of us from the big cities to the small ones. They then can have maximum effect on everything that we do. They can then insinuate themselves down to the smallest most minute part of our lives. Look at how their efforts toward this is going.

    Its not just me saying these things other people are breaking out of the matrix they are un-jacking themselves from the media hype and thereby seeing things for what they really are.

    Look at the Iraq debacle the New York Times is at the top of the heap they have a national security reporter and also reporters all over the world. So when they say Sadam Husain as WMD what happens? Other media producers see the loss of readership and reader dollars so they chime in with Sadam Husain as WMDs. But if you are another newspaper and you decide to report the possibility that Sadam does not have WMDs then you risk the ire of the government for not perpetuating the government line.

    Oh, I know no one controls you are a free thinker. You do as you choose, think as you choose act as you choose. BULLSHIT That's right I said bullshit. I am going to show you a video that demonstrates to you how much you are controlled. This video will I assure you will cut across a number of things that you believe in. You will get livid with anger at the assault on some of the basic precepts of your life. You might even delete me as a friend or write me nasty emails. But you know that is the way it is. I am not here to feed you Pablum to tell you what you want to hear, I am here to tell you the truth and sometimes the truth hurts. This video is much more it is a movie and it is 2 hours long.

    In the next installment of "Truth and Deception" we will examine the government's role in the manipulation of what we think about the world and our relationship to it.

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