Do you trademark your typeface(s)?
Lars Schwarz
Posts: 114
I just added trademark info to the name check tool (https://namecheck.fontdata.com/) and was wondering if any individual/independent designers also trademark their work?
As of now I indexed 1004live/active trademarks for fonts specifically, mostly those of Monotype, Berthold, Fontshop, Apple, Bauer and other "big players" and I'm curious to find out if I missed any of yours?
So if you trademarked your work (internationally) it would be great to add those trademark(s), too. Also curious to hear if you only registered a local trademark only and for what reasons.
As of now I indexed 1004live/active trademarks for fonts specifically, mostly those of Monotype, Berthold, Fontshop, Apple, Bauer and other "big players" and I'm curious to find out if I missed any of yours?
So if you trademarked your work (internationally) it would be great to add those trademark(s), too. Also curious to hear if you only registered a local trademark only and for what reasons.
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We trademark in the US only. It's mostly just a due diligence thing. US is the biggest market and, caching issues being what they are, no one really wants to steal our names.3
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I didn’t, but wished I had.
So now I do... but like Joyce, just US.
I think/hope that is sufficient. Anybody selling Latin-based fonts will want to be able to sell to the US, I figure.0 -
The user and all related content has been deleted.0
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I register most Shinntype names in the US. It does seem like an unnecessary expense for those designs which are one-off novelties, though, I don’t bother for those.0
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@Nick Shinn
That would be Bodoni Egyptian, Beaufort, Sense and Neology (and Shinn Type), correct, or am I missing some names?0 -
@James Montalbano
Not sure this is important, but I was wondering why I wasn't able to find Yo and then noticed that it's actually registered to "Terrminal Design, Inc." (notice the double r).0 -
What about Brown, Nick?1
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I don’t recall.
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