Patents

Do you really need a patent? It depends. The tinaja.com site has some very realistic facts that could save you a money and plenty of aggravations. Don Lancaster offers a free PDF file on this subject. By the way, this is a very interesting site and is well worth navigating from the opening home page at http://www.tinaja.com

Trademark Research

Check the free trademark search at the tmcenter when you have several choices for potential trademarks and you wish to narrow the field by eliminating obviously unavailable marks.  US and Candian database are available for tm research.

http://www.tmcenter.com/services_freesearch.htm