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Types of Trademarks
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Trademarks protect words, names, symbols, sounds, or colors that distinguish goods and services. Trademarks, unlike patents, can be renewed forever as long as they are being used in commerce.
Specific types of trademarks include:
- Service marks identify and distinguish the source of a service rather than a product.
- Certification marks are any word, name, symbol, device, or any combination, used, or intended to be used, in commerce by someone other than its owner, to certify regional or other origin, material, mode of manufacture, quality, accuracy, or other characteristics of such person's goods or services, or that the work or labor on the goods or services was performed by members of a union or other organization.
- Collective marks are trademarks or service marks used, or intended to be used, in commerce, by the members of a cooperative, an association, or other collective group or organization, including a mark that indicates membership in a union, an association, or other organization.
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Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property Jon Dudas addresses participants at the Conference on Intellectual Property in the Global Marketplace in Miami, FL on September 26
Former Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for IP Steve Pinkos shows a Texas small business audience nearly identical real and fake boat gauges in Austin, Texas on Sep. 12, 2005
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