What is a Business Name?
A business name is the name a company is registered by a person or entity. In the UK you register a Company at the Companies House and once the name is registered no other company can register the same name.
What is a trade name?
A trade name is a name that a business use if they wish not to use their registered name.
What is a trademark?
A trademark is what identifies a service or a product. A trademark is a sign, a text or image that differentiates from competitors and is intellectual property. This can be a logo, a colour or a shape. Unregistered trademarks often use the symbol ™.
What is a Registered Trademark?
A registered trademark is a trademark has been registered with the Intellectual Property Office. A registered trademark can be a word, an image or a phrase, and will use the ® symbol to indicate it is registered.
Can you explain in another way?
In other words, A business name is a business name registered with the pertinent authority, you could name your company “The most amazing business limited”. Now your business can have one or multiple trade names.
Lets says your company has 2 different audiences, for instance, one is the happy people and another is the crazy people, you may trade as “Happy amazing business” and “The Crazy business”. Both trade names can be used for the same company “The most amazing business limited”.
“The most amazing business limited” can also own trademarks, let’s say you have a product called “Happy soap™“. Now if you want to protect this name as you don’t want someone else to use it, so you register it at the intellectual property office and now “Happy soap®” is a registered trademark.
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