Protecting Your Business’s Name

Online everyone tends to try and rip eachother off with their site names. Even though you have the domain the title of the site can be used by practically anyone.

What about your actual business name? Have you ever had your name copied by another business? You come up with a great name, but most don't take any step to protect that name and sometimes lose business because someone else is using your name and possibly using it better for something that doesn't even relate to YOUR business. Take a looka t this article to find some ways that you can in fact protect your business name from getting copied by someone else.

You’ve invested serious time and effort coming up with a unique name for your business, and you want to be sure you’ve done everything you can to protect it. But are there legal steps you can take to do that?

Absolutely. If yours is the first business to use the name, you can protect it so that no one else can use it without your prior permission. And the proper way to protect a business name from use by others is to register it as a trade name.

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