JobMob is now a registered US trademark. This is the story of how it happened.
Background
When I first started JobMob, even though I had no idea where it would be 4 years later, or perhaps because I had no idea where it would be 4 years later, it made perfect sense to protect what I was building. And one of the ways you do that is by trademarking your idea.
I had a feeling it would be expensive, especially for someone who was just getting started and wasn’t thinking of blogging as a business, so I did some research and found out that:
Yes, it IS expensive for a hobby blogger (over US$300 just to file an application)
And that’s just for an American trademark. It’s even more expensive to file a trademark in Israel.
However, I also found out that according to the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), “if you claim rights to use a mark, you may use the “TM” … designation to alert the public to your claim of ownership of the mark, regardless of whether you have filed an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).”
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