Legal Question in Business Law in Illinois

trademark or servicemark

if put my company name on the tag inside a t shirt is that a service mark or trademark?


Asked on 6/01/07, 8:16 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Noelle Ansley Noelle Ansley

Re: trademark or servicemark

It depends. In a nutshell, are you providing a good or a service? Trademarks generally are used to identify the company providing the good, whereas service marks identify the company providing a service. If your company does not make the shirts, only provides some kind of service on them (such as screen printing), then you'd want to go with a service mark.

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Answered on 6/03/07, 12:07 pm


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