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Yo my boy from Mag-Neto Muzik hooked me up with the illest beat for my book commercial, it's about to be LIT!!!!! :banderas: :gladbron:We're working on it right now, there's gonna be two versions. a preview copy now and a final cut copy for when the book drops next month.

My boy said it could be finished by monday I'm about to hit Coli up with the exclusive.

Edit: Plus NYC gonna be filled with these badboys coming up BOLO...

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I just tried to register my trademark with Legal zoom, they was $750+ for the complete order... What the fukk???? :damn: That's so ridiculously expensive then what I thought. the trademark search, the filing fee and the registration had me: :dead:

I'm gonna have to lean back for a bit and stack up until I get some more money to finish this...:whoa:

so it's more that $750?
 

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so it's more that $750?
@ORDER_66 I think you guys might be putting way too much stock into trademarks and copyrights and all that. The U.S. is a "first to use" jurisdiction. Use that money to go advertise/market your product.

To acquire ownership of a trademark, it is not enough to have invented the mark first or even to have registered it first; the party claiming ownership must have been the first to actually use the mark in commerce. Therefore, a party pursuing a trademark claim must meet a threshold “use in commerce” requirement.

The term “use in commerce” means the bona fide use of a mark in the ordinary course of trade. The use must be more than merely to reserve a right in a mark. Trademark protection is granted only to marks that are used to identify and to distinguish goods or services in commerce, which typically occurs when a mark is used in conjunction with the actual sale of goods or services.

Trademark Law: first to use v. first to file
 

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@ORDER_66 I think you guys might be putting way too much stock into trademarks and copyrights and all that. The U.S. is a "first to use" jurisdiction. Use that money to go advertise/market your product.



Trademark Law: first to use v. first to file

I'd rather be safe then sorry. if im legally using a character to sell a products id rather own the name outright. So I can profit off the merchandise i sell before anyone steals my idea. it's about protecting yourself and your brand.
 

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Start small. Small inventory and small items that will fit into a USPS small flat rate box/bubble mailers.

Try to sell things that will likely not get returned either. Console video games are a nice spot to get into because the buying market has already accepted that software is not returnable for refund or exchange across the board. The margins are small but you can eat if you are willing to put the work in.

Then start expanding slowly from there as you learn your audience. There likely isn't much time to capitalize on the console gaming market as physical media is on its way out, but I think you still have a nice 3-4 year window to make it work.
 
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