Need some good tips on naming?  Then check out Steve Rivkin’s free 33 Tips & Tactics for Generating Names (scroll to bottom of page for order information).
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 [...]

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 [...]

Chris Brown over at Branding & Marketing links to five naming tutorials and also to The Best Brands of the World (woorrlld, I say in Keith Olbermann fashion). Of course, make sure you clear your perfect brand name prior to making a substantial investment in its use.
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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 [...]