How can I copyright a identify?? Question: I plan on starting a company in roughly speaking

Question: I plan on starting a company in roughly speaking 2-3 years and I was wondering how can I copyright the designation of the company so I can legally own it. By the means of access, live in California, if it help.

Like other's said dance to local goverment building and ask about it they should furnish you forms to fill out if chock-a-block out right bing bang boom you progress yourself a copyright

You wouldn't copyright it. Copyrights can be obtain for things of an artistic nature. This includes, logically, poetry, films, sculptures, music, fiction, etc. But can also include things that may not necessarily give the impression of being "artistic" in the common sense of the word. Copyrights can also be obtained for hype copy, games, software programs and blueprints, to name only a few.

To protect a business name inwardly your industry, you would apply for a trademark.

Trademarks can be names of products or services, logos, slogans, paper and even sounds and smells. In essence, a trademark can be almost anything that is used to identify a pernickety product or service. Registering a trademark grants the owner exclusive rights to the blemish within the specified industry.

Of course, it's basic to research the mark comprehensively prior to file to ensure that there is no possibility of infringing upon another deputation.

To register a trademark, contact either your Secretary of State for a State trademark or the US Patent & Trademark Office for a Federal trademark.

If you are with the sole purpose conducting business in one state, next a State trademark is most appropriate. If you conduct business in at most minuscule 2 states OR between the US & any other country, you can file for a Federal trademark.

Hope that help! I wish you much nouns & happiness within all your venture! Source(s):
http://www.uspto.gov -- US Patent & Trademark Office; go to the TRADEMARKS part
http://www.nolo.com/resource.cfm/catID/D8932879-DC34-43DF-BF65FC92D55FEE5D/310/274/ -- Nolo's Trademark Resource Center
http://biztaxlaw.about.com/od/research/a/Sec_of_state.htm --Go to your state's Secretary of State page to see if they own a searchable database of business names

Answers:
For copyright info, visit http://www.copyright.gov

For trademark info, call on http://www.uspto.gov

Your local gov. office.....

why no use own name better