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Intellectual Property Rights and Your New Business
Conduct a free trade mark check
Before starting off any new business venture, you would be were advised to check that the proposed trading name for your business [as well as any product and service names you are planning to use] is not already in use by a rival company. A check on www.ipo.gov.uk [which is the website of the UK Trade Mark Registry] will quickly reveal whether or not the proposed name you are planning on using is already registered – or whether someone has a current application for registration of the name pending. While you're on the site, you might care to look around – it provides a useful summary of UK intellectual property rights.
Register your domain name
Our intellectual property lawyers strongly advise that you buy any domain names you're thinking of using as soon as possible. For example, .co.uk addresses can be purchased as cheaply as £5.98 plus VAT, with initial registration lasting for two years. It also worth considering registration not just of the site name you're thinking of using, but similar abbreviations, or words describing your site – this should avoid the risk of someone else either holding you to ransom by registering your desired domain name first and then trying to sell the domain to you for a huge fee - and additionally it stops other businesses trying to trade on your name.
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