How Do I Avoid Violating Trademarks When Naming My Show?

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Pat Flynn

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4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2015

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Today's question comes from Josh, who is trying to name a podcast without violating a government trademark. In this episode, I talk about the trademark problems I ran into with my niche site, Green Exam Academy (http://www.greenexamacademy.com/). Do you have a question about naming your podcast, blog, or product? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Thanks to our sponsor, Lynda.com. Try out all of Lynda.com's courses for free for seven days. Go http://lynda.com/AskPat to get started. Today's sponsor is Braintree. Braintree will help you accept business payments for your products from customers across the world. Go to http://braintreepayments.com/pat. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	What's up, Ask Pat.
0:09.1	What's up, everybody, Patflin here, and thank you for joining me in episode 470 of Ask Pat.
0:15.6	We got a great one today, and as always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:20.1	Today's question is from Josh, but before we get to Josh's question, I do want to thank
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1:06.5	You love it. All right. Here's today's question from Josh.
1:10.7	Hey, Pat. I hope you're doing well, brother. My name is Josh. I'm an Air Force veteran trying
1:15.1	to create a podcast interviewing men and women of the Air Force about their specific
1:19.6	AFSCs, which basically means their jobs. I think this will help young people make a more
1:24.7	informed decision on joining the Air Force or not, and if they do, then what career field best fits their goals. I'm running to a speed bump,
1:31.4	though. The Air Force owns trademarks on USAF, U.S. Air Force, United States Air Force, and are currently
1:37.6	filing for trademark on Air Force, which I have no doubt they'll get. I know you're not a trademark
1:43.3	lawyer, but you do have a lot of
1:44.9	experience in this in the early years of Green Exam Academy. So here's my question. How do you come up
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