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Thanks for your comment Ilene Beese, have a nice day.
- Jeanetta Chott, Staff Member
hi i'm richard byrne in this video i'm going to show you how you can search the u.s trademark database to see if a word or term is actually been trademarked i'm doing this because this company called tozel which used to be a service that offered a great back channel tool it was hosted by a gentleman in germany and it was a nice little tool unfortunately the tool was shut down and the domain became available and another company bought it and is now threatening a bunch of bloggers including myself for using the word tozle in any kind of context online which is completely bogus claim they're claiming that they own the trademark turns out they don't actually own the trademark so here's how you can do a search go to the u.s trademark electronic search system known as test you can go here and do a quick search so let's do a search and we're going to search right now for something that i know is trademarked like hulk hogan right every child of the 80s remembers hulk hogan let's do our query there it is a whole bunch of variations on hulk hogan that are trademarked you can see that one is live that trademark is now dead all right that one is expired as well that one's live so let's go and see and there's the serial number the registration number let's go and look at it right and we can find out all kinds of information about it like who's the attorney of record for that when it was when it was registered all kinds of great information about this you can see where it's been used now let's go back and let's do another search and let's say we want to search for one like the word tosl which this company claims they have trademarked let's go and do a search nothing it is not actually a registered trademark so that's how you can check to see whether or not a term has actually been trademarked or not and if you're a blogger like me who's been harassed by this company feel free to send them this video or tell them to take a flying leap as always for more tips and tricks like this please check out freetech4teachers.com or subscribe to my youtube channel
Thanks juliencyrq your participation is very much appreciated
- Jeanetta Chott
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I've studied agrochemistry at Vanguard University of Southern California in Costa Mesa and I am an expert in cynology. I usually feel melancholy. My previous job was child support services worker I held this position for 17 years, I love talking about confectionery and air soft. Huge fan of Amandla Stenberg I practice alpine skiing and collect plants.
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