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Tip number five gives us trademark attorneys the warm and fuzzies : )
5. Go for Quantity
Don’t fall in love with a short list of three or four possible names.
Develop lots […]

OpVista recently announced that it is rebranding (had to?) its AnyWave Optical Networking Platform to nWave.
OpVista is making this move to proactively avoid any potential dispute with Vanu, Inc.’s use of the “AnyWave” terminology.
Vanu owns the registered mark AnyWave for “computer software for use in operating wireless telecommunications systems.
AFTERTHOUGHT: Come to think of it, […]

What’s INN? INN stands for International Nonproprietary Names which are the generic names used to identify pharmaceutical substances or active pharmaceutical ingredients. It’s a list of some 7000 names maintained by the World Health Organization. The purpose of INN is
to provide health professionals with a unique and universally available designated name to identify each pharmaceutical […]

How many trademark records exists for foreign based owners? 3,625,679.
Here’s the search strategy:
not (”united states” Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada “New Hampshire” “New Jersey” “New Mexico” “New York” “North Carolina” […]

Tim Bray gives us a peek into Sun’s internal Open Source Review process. Tim wrote some code he called the Atom Protocol Exerciser, or APE for short. He wanted to release it, but he had to go through Sun’s approval process first.
There are a bunch of steps. You have to get approval from your own […]

For 2006, there was a total of 276,165 applications filed with the PTO {2006????[fd]}.
162,494 (58.8%) were filed as intent to use applications {2006????[fd] and (1B)[ob]}.
102,035 (36.9%) were filed as in use applications {2006????[fd] and (1A)[ob]}.
7820 (2.8%) were filed on the basis of a foreign application {2006????[fd] and (44d)[ob]}.
3606 (1.3%) were filed on the basis of […]

Just some trademark searches of interest.
As of today, at 1:40 E.S.T.
Number of total “live” registrations: 1,341,391 {live[ld] and `rn > “0″}
Number of total “live” registrations on the principal register (including 2(f) and 2(f)-in-part registrations): 1,288,461 {live[ld] and `rn > “0″ and (principal[rg] or principal-2[rg] or part[rg])}
Number of total “live” registrations on the supplemental register: 52,930 […]