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Product names cannot be protected by copyright. To determine if it has been registered as a trademark, you may search the database of the trademark office of the country in which you intend to do business.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 11y agoMost "products" would be more likely to be protected by trademark or patent. US patents can be searched through Google Patent, and trademarks can be searched through the US Patent and Trademark Office or through the WIPO database ROMARIN. Trademark can be protected without registration, though; this is called common law trademark.
Copyright is even more complicated. Because neither registration nor notification is required for protection, you mostly end up assuming something is protected until you can prove otherwise.
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