Question about securing logo and product names?

This isn’t patent related. You’re in need of a trademark.

However, you must show actual use of the trademark before the application can be granted. There are nuances with this. You also need to make sure there isn’t another entity using a similar logo/design in the same field.

Buy the domain name for it before sending it to anyone.

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I’d rather have the trademark first.

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That would be nice, but he said "all I have right now is a name and an idea for a logo and label." He's shopping for an artist to develop a logo that he would then trademark.

He could trademark just the name (if it qualifies) and do the symbol/design later. Either way, your point remains. Would he lawyer up and sue Kraft if they ripped off his idea, trademarked or not? The mark gives you a leg up, but it would still cost $$$ to fight.

You have to either protect yourself the best you reasonably can and proceed with your product/idea, or sit on it and do nothing because you can't afford the legal fees if someone steals it. Sometimes you have to take a chance.

Please note... I am replying to everybody... But I wanted to answer this question first because I think that it may solve some issues.

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Getting to the spirit of the question. The name/logo doesn't really have value until it has a product behind it, i wouldn't be worried about anyone "stealing" the name.

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Lets say that I am in touch with a Hot Sauce Bottling company already. They will apply my label to one of their bottles of Hot sauce and I can buy and resell cases at a time of their product with my label, AS a NEW product...

I am banking on my logo to be the key seller... The product will be just your regular Hot sauce. Whether I put my label on somebody elses product for re-sell... Or I go to a hot sauce botteling company with my recipe...

In this case I am working on my recipe now, but before I go and work a deal with the bottling company, I want my label to take with me for discussion...

What I am up against right now is that I am dealing with artists and logo companies now and I am emailing my rough sketch for my label, and I am worried that somebody may like my idea and do it before I do.. So I am trying to protect myself and my design and Name here...

Now this is not what doing, But I am using this image for discussion only...



So that is what I have got, and I think that it's great and gonna work... So I am sending to multiple artists to get the drawing better... And I don;t want like I said, somebody to take this idea, think it's great too and sell it to a hot sauce bottling company as their idea...

Right now I am having difficultly with getting an image done... I can;t even get a jpeg image cleaned up in ms paint... and I am willing to pay...

So far I have paid two different people and they arn't even close to my original drawing...

I would just post it here.. But I don;t want my idea stolen, because it is good.