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Maker177
03-13-2008, 09:45 PM
Hi,

Was wondering if there is a website where you can lookup trademarks/copyrights, etc. I am interested in creating my own hosting company, but I have suspicion that part of the name I want to use has been trademarked.

Thanks.

boonchuan
03-13-2008, 09:50 PM
I think this would be better discussed in the Running a Web Hosting Forum. Moved.

AmyWilliams
03-13-2008, 10:15 PM
You can't really lookup a copyright. Anything that's published is automatically copyright. An activity like uploading a page to the internet is synonymous with publishing. So everything that you see on the internet is copyright (unless otherwise noted).

To lookup trademarks you could start at the USPTO: http://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm