Trademarks and Copyrights
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The following are our trademarks:
Scranton/Wilkes Barre Blues Association™
"Charity Through Music"™
Endless Mountains Blues Fest™
The
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office defines trademarks as follows:
"A TRADEMARK is either a word, phrase, symbol or design, or combination of
words, phrases, symbols or designs, which identifies and distinguishes the
source of the goods or services of one party from those of others."
The purpose of trademark law is to ensure that consumers are able to rely on marks in exercising their preferences by prohibiting competitors from using marks in a way that confuses consumers about the source of goods or services. The names used above, which are used to promote our services, events, and our charity efforts are our trademarks, and these names or terms may not be used by another
What are common law
rights?
In order to claim common law rights, use must be substantial and the
"in the ordinary course of business". For services, using the mark in
commerce in connection with the sale and advertising of the services will
suffice as use.
Trade name rights exist for the common law within the mark's geographic trade area. Without registration with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for federal marks or with the Secretary of State for state marks, rights to a mark depend on the actual usage of that mark in commerce.
Scranton/Wilkes
Barre Blues Association™
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