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Generally, if you use your logo for commercial value, you should register ownership of the trademark. By registering your trademark, you guarantee that people identify your brand. You may protect your logo if it is your original work and is non-commercial.

You may register logos with the Secretary of State in the state where your company is based. This protects your rights within that state, so the logo cannot be copied by brands in other states. The most expensive option is to file a trademark application with the USPTO.

No, you do not have to put LLC in your logo or in any of your marketing materials. There is no legal or regulatory requirement to put ?LLC? in your logo. Putting ?LLC? in your logo does not provide any additional legal protection for your business.

In general, the permissions process involves a simple five-step procedure: Determine if permission is needed. Identify the owner. Identify the rights needed. Contact the owner and negotiate whether payment is required. Get your permission agreement in writing.

Brand licensing is the act of giving permission for another company to use your business's intellectual property (IP). Brand owners lease their patents, software, or characters to other companies. Licensees can re-sell the IP at a higher price or manufacture merchandise with the IP on it.

And as mentioned before, the copyright symbol is generally not necessary. But the function of the symbol remains the same?to give notice that the identified work is protected by copyright.

A logo that includes artistic or design elements, (i.e. not just the name on its own), is legally regarded as being a work of artistic creation and therefore will be protected under copyright law. Copyright protects the logo as an artistic work.

In order to register your copyright you must file an application accompanied by the appropriate fee to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), a federal agency responsible for the administration and processing of intellectual property rights in Canada, including the registration of copyrights.

The process of registering a logo trademark includes filing an application with the USPTO and the USPTO charges a filing fee for every new trademark application. The application fee is currently $250 per class of goods or services that you list in your application.

The Standard license gives you the right to use the image in perpetuity, in any medium and geographic location, and as many designs as you wish, without ever having to pay royalties for said use.