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DIY - doing more with less

March 13th, 2006

Grr. I really have to learn to save more. I just lost a great long post, but it’s going to force a rewrite and two separate posts here, which is a good thing.

Short summary: I’m in a Do It Yourself panel right now that’s giving me a lot of great advice. I’m sorry to have lost some of the earlier quotes, but them’s the breaks.

Rheingold: TESS is the US patent trademark search site. It only costs 360 dollars to trademark your logo or wordmark.

Rheingold:”Just signing up for a domain name doesn’t mean that you have any right to use that mark.”

Hudack / Rheingold: “You don’t need to have lawyers involved. 2 sentences on paper with some witnesses and signed works.”

Keeler: “you really have to follow the bloggers who are influential .

Attendee: There’s a great site for doing trademarks and legal things yourself called nolo