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Advertising your business vs advertising for others
If you have a law firm or another professional services type business, you would not register in class 35 for 'advertising services' because this means you do advertising services for other businesses, not just advertise your professional services....
Retail Services
When registering a trademark or retail services, i.e. if you had a clothing shop, you may look at registering in just class 25 which is for clothing (as Goods), or making clothes. But then if you sell other people's clothes too, it would be a retail...
If I have Good and or Services in a class does that cover me for the whole class?
In this video, IP Australia explain that even though you may list something within a certain class, i.e. Class 9, doesn't mean you get registration for the entire class - you only get protection for the items that you select within Class 9. Keep in...
Introduction to Good & Services Classes
There are 45 classes to choose from between goods and services. This video explains how to use the tools available at IP Australia in picking the right class or classes of goods or services. If you register in the wrong class, you can't correct thi...
The Basics - Trademarks
This article explains the basics about intellectual property including copyright, patents, trademarks, registered design, plant breeder's rights, circuit layout rights, moral rights and confidential information. It also explains that that domain name...
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