TM sites question

are these sites TM?

web. com
wap. com
biz. com

or any site similar with these?

also how can I check for TM sites?

thanks in advance

 

friendly bump for this thread

 

is this a hard question? :|

 

No not a hard question at all, just scroll down to the end of the page and look for a TM thats all, if its not there chances are its not TM.

 

Actually i don't believe there is a requirement that there be a trademark notice on a web site if the domain name (or business name) is trademarked. If you want to know what trademarks have been registered in the US, you can do a search at the Patent and Trademark Office:

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=tess&state=q6p7s1.1.1

 

Unfortunately that's correct. None of the lawyers I know have yet to tell me
of any jurisdiction (by far) that requires putting anything on a word used as a
trademark, be it TM or SM for service mark.

Heck, the USPTO isn't the only online trademark database in the world, and it
doesn't cover common law trademarks either. One would have to make like an
exhaustive search, although one can do well to possibly stay away from what
I call "uniquely famous" marks like Google, Microsoft, or a big pharmaceutical
company.

 

I used USPTO and got these results
for biz. com
Sorry, no results found for ""biz.com"". Try entering fewer or broader query terms.

wap. com
Sorry, no results found for ""wap.com"". Try entering fewer or broader query terms.

and for web.com got 3 results, but I' not sure if they are for web. com only

thanks for your replies

 

All right, dlatua, try this instead. Search in Google for "word trademark", word
being the word or so in question.

Let me emphasize it's not authoritative or exhaustive, but it should give you a
few results to work with.

Oh, and web.com (or web, not sure) is a trademark.

 

hello mate

I wasn't so lucky in my search

after my searches seems web. com is TM biz. com no TM and wap. com no TM

 

Actually, your search just looked at registered trademarks. It is possible that wap.com and biz.com could be common law trademarks. More info:
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/tac/tmfaq.htm#Search005

And that's just in the US. Trademarks are geographical, so a company name that is not trademarked in the US, might be trademarked in the UK or Australia or elsewhere in the world.

If it's important to your business to find out for absolutely certain, you might want to hire an attorney with expertise in trademarks to do a comprehensive search for you.

And just to point out the trickiness of searching, you should have gotten a hit for "wap.com" as a US Trademark when searching TESS (http://www.uspto.gov/ebc/index_tm.html):

You should have also gotten a hit for "biz.com", which was registered but is now abandoned.

 

thanks a lot

so my other question is if I reg web.whatever or wap.whatever or biz.whatever are TM issues ?

 

Yes there would potentially be trademark issues. It depends in part on how you use the name - is there a "likelihood of confusion" with the trademark holder?

 

well about web and biz I was thinking for sites like co. cc and about wap.whatever just to sell it but as thy are TM I cant sell any of them

thanks

 

You can not purchase a domain for the sole reason of selling it, if it is trademarked, as that is a bad faith purchase.

 

thats tha domainers job (buy and sell domains) lol
TM domains cant be sold (TM issues)

P.S. I searched again and it looks biz. com was a TM but not anymore, is that possible?