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Is "Part Time Blogger" a trademark?

by Organizationer
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Hello experts.

Would like to get your views. I tried to check the appraisal for Part Time Blogger (dot) com but it shows that it is a "High risk trademark domain" and thus not appraised.

I tried google the term but not found any trademark.

Anybody knows about this?

Thanks in advance..

Naz
#appraisal #domain #domains #part time blogger #trademark
  • Profile picture of the author buzilla
    Possibly because it contains the word "blogger"?
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    • Profile picture of the author Organizationer
      Originally Posted by buzilla View Post

      Possibly because it contains the word "blogger"?
      You may be right..but is the term "blogger" a trademark? did google trademark it?
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  • Profile picture of the author Organizationer
    Originally Posted by Art of Marketing View Post

    ParttimeBloggin.com ia avail now. it is slang but catchy and shorter.

    Also ParttimeBlogMaster.com is available Now.

    -Art
    Thanks for your suggestion
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  • Profile picture of the author Sirr
    Originally Posted by Art of Marketing View Post

    ParttimeBloggin.com ia avail now. it is slang but catchy and shorter.

    Also ParttimeBlogMaster.com is available Now.

    -Art
    You should never use slang in domains as an alternative for the real domain. People tend not to remember them and you'd be giving away a percentage of traffic to parttimeblogging.com when people type it in and instinctively spell it correctly.

    Also the suffix 'er' has different meaning than 'ing'. It changes the meaning of the noun.

    "I'm a part time blogger" is grammatically correct.
    "I'm a part time blogging" isn't.

    Since the domain he was referring to was "blogger" he has a reason with that.
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  • Profile picture of the author mrgoe
    I don`t think that google has under trademark the word blogger. I think it`s just something the automaded bots see as trademark risk.
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    • Profile picture of the author davezan
      Originally Posted by mrgoe View Post

      I don`t think that google has under trademark the word blogger. I think it`s just something the automaded bots see as trademark risk.
      "Word Mark BLOGGER
      Goods and Services IC 041. US 100 101 107. G & S: Electronic publishing services, namely, publication of text, audio, video and graphic works online featuring news, diaries, commentary, photos, poetry, mini-essays, project updates, non-fiction and fiction. FIRST USE: 19990831. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19990831
      Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
      Serial Number 78311623
      Filing Date October 9, 2003
      Current Basis 1A
      Original Filing Basis 1A
      Published for Opposition April 19, 2005
      Registration Number 2966427
      International Registration Number 0857910
      Registration Date July 12, 2005
      Owner (REGISTRANT) Google Inc. CORPORATION DELAWARE 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View CALIFORNIA 94043
      Type of Mark SERVICE MARK
      Register PRINCIPAL
      Affidavit Text SECT 15. SECT 8 (6-YR).
      Live/Dead Indicator LIVE"
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      • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
        According to the US Trademark Electronic Search Service (tmsearch.uspto.gov), the word "blogger" is indeed trademarked, but no record was found for "part time blogger".

        Unless you were planning to offer free blogs to the public, where parttimeblogger.com might be confused with blogger.com, you should be in the clear.

        Key words: "should be"

        You can find out for sure by submitting a trademark application and seeing if it's approved. Then you'll own the mark 'part time blogger'.

        A search using just the term 'blogger' turned up 53 occurences of registered trademarks containing the word 'blogger'.
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  • Profile picture of the author FrontLineMentor
    Just checked the past domain sales, there about 50 domain sales related to "blogger", to name a few:

    businessbloggers.co.uk sold $1.6k in 2012 through Sedo
    businessbloggers.com sold $3.2k in 2012 through Sedo
    videoblogger.net sold $3.4k in 2012 through Afternic
    Geobloggers.com sold $610 in 2012 through Namejet
    TheStarBlogger.com sold $405 in 2012 through Godaddy
    NetBlogger.com sold $650 in 2011 through Sedo

    If "blogger" is a trademark, why the domains were sold in the domain marketplace?

    Besides, Blogger.info, blogger.biz and blogger.us belong to somebody else, not Google. Why don't Google "seize" the domains if the term "blogger" is a trademark?
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    • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
      Originally Posted by FrontLineMentor View Post

      If "blogger" is a trademark, why the domains were sold in the domain marketplace?

      Besides, Blogger.info, blogger.biz and blogger.us belong to somebody else, not Google. Why don't Google "seize" the domains if the term "blogger" is a trademark?
      Depends on the usage.

      Blogger as google uses it is more of a noun.

      Blogger as I'm reading it in the other domains is a verb.

      (this is not a legal explanation, only my thought )
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      • Profile picture of the author Sirr
        Google can only take action if the intention of the domain is used in relation to Google's Blogger service. Google may have the TM on the word Blogger, but only in relation to it's product. It has no ownership of the word outside of it's product.

        Google can not register a TM for it's product under the dictionary definition of the word Blogger. Nobody can.
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        • Profile picture of the author RichMarketer
          Originally Posted by Jill Carpenter View Post

          Depends on the usage.

          Blogger as google uses it is more of a noun.

          Blogger as I'm reading it in the other domains is a verb.

          (this is not a legal explanation, only my thought )
          How is it possible to use "blogger" as a verb?
          Any example?

          Originally Posted by Sirr View Post

          Google can only take action if the intention of the domain is used in relation to Google's Blogger service. Google may have the TM on the word Blogger, but only in relation to it's product. It has no ownership of the word outside of it's product.

          Google can not register a TM for it's product under the dictionary definition of the word Blogger. Nobody can.
          Maybe you are right. So if I have a domain NewYorkBlogger.com and it is about my daily diary, it should be ok haha
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