Defend your Name -- Trademark your organization. Establishing a trademark provides legal aid organizations with key tools that they can use to combat cyber piracy. Trademarks can be registered online at the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Electronic Application System for a fee of $335. Having a federally registered trademark gives legal aid groups several remedies to curtail domain parking or cyber squatting, and offers leverage in dealing with deceptive advertisers and search engines companies. Even if it has not registered a federal trademark, however, a legal aid organization may be entitled to common-law protection.
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