We have a dilemma that we are currently working through. We have 2 more words we want to trademark. We have 2 trademarks currently filed under 2 categories and need to protect 2 more. The question that I have sent to our trade mark attorney is this: We have a character in a story we wrote that we want to trademark. We haven't drawn the character yet. We will copyright the story and we are wondering if that will give us any protection of the character until we file a trademark with the character drawing.
Trade marks and copyrights can be very confusing. First of all for a trademark, you have to determine if you are filing for goods or services. Then you have to determine what classes you want to register them in. At this time, it cost $275 per trademark class. There are 22 classes. It's not uncommon to have your trademark registered in 2 or 3 classes. There are some very helpful videos at the USPTO that explain this. I haven't really found an answer on the copyright offices website. Maybe there will be an attorney that can weigh in for an answer for future followers. Once I get an answer from our attorney, I will post it.
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