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ESP Designs
Trademark Guidelines
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What is the difference between a trademark,
service mark or registered mark?
A
trademark (TM)
is a word,
phrase, symbol or design, or a combination of words, phrases, symbols
or designs, that identifies and distinguishes the source of the goods
of one party from those of others.
A
service mark (SM) is the
same as a trademark, except that it identifies and distinguishes the
source of a service rather than a product. Throughout this page, the
terms "trademark" and "mark" refer to our registered mark, trademarks
and service marks.
A
registered mark
®
can only be used once the mark is actually registered in the U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office. Trademark registration allows for the following
presumptions...
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The ability to bring actions
for trademark infringement in federal courts, as well as state courts;
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Eligibility for up to treble
damages in a successful trademark infringement action;
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A presumption that the registered
mark is valid;
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The ability to prevent the importation
of goods bearing infringing marks, by recording the registration
with United States Customs.
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Without trademarks,
the general public wouldn't be able to differentiate products or...
content of high quality from those of lesser quality. Otherwise,
the consumer would not have a way of establishing any continuity
or assurance that a product or service will be what is represented
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ESPD®
Mark |
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Our mark espd®
represents high-quality information in "the field of historical preservation, paleontology and technology via
the internet, in class 42 (U.S.CLS 100 and 101)"
and is a unique source identifier
for Esp Designs high quality services. It is a distinctive mark of the
services we offer Although we have several Domain names such as
espdesigns.com and espd.com they are not descriptive of our mark eSpd® but rather a independent service provided by Esp Designs. |
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Guidelines
for using and protecting our
trademarks |
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Our Mark ESPD® denotes any stylized, plain, or ordered form of the
letters ESPD. It is not an acronym and can not be used as such since
it is still an organized form of the letters ESPD. Additionally when ESPD® was initially researched. There were no acronyms or organizations
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Any reference
to our marks must be set apart from other words or nouns they modify.
The common way to do this is to highlight
the name of our services or product by underlining, italics, or
bold type and designate the trademarks with the appropriate symbols
- ®, TM or SM. |
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You may not market
any business, product or service under a name that is confusingly
similar to our marks.
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Do not use any of our
marks in the possessive or plural form.
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Trademarks serve to
identify the source of a product or service. If our marks are combined with
the marks or product names of others, consumers may be confused
as to which company is the source of a product.
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Registered Mark ESPD®,
Copyright © 1995 - 2008 All Rights
Reserved. Information in this document is subject to change
without notice. Web site established 1995. To
Contact us please write to ESP Designs at Contact Us |
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| Note: All
colorized historical pictures, maps and recovered artifacts may not be
used without explicit permission , This
also includes the Intellectual property and history derived from the
only archeological survey ever conducted of the Ox Hill Battlefield
(Chantilly). |
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