Trademarks & Safe Keywords (Amazon Merch Tutorial 2020 #05)

[@RyanHoguePassiveIncome]

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[@PERsonalThreadz]

I had a decent selling shirt and someone filed early this month for a trade mark on clothing how long before I should remove it ?

[@1.5Koreans0.5American]

I’m planning to watch almost all of your videos to start print on demand! 🙌 Thank you for sharing!

[@RyanHoguePassiveIncome]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@sarahrose7425]

Doing precisely that right now!!

[@jalabi99]

@Ryan Hogue Passive Income one of my friends is a lawyer who specializes in trademark and other intellectual property law. I asked him about these attempts to trademark the phrases "Black Lives Matter" and "I Can't Breathe". He said that his best guess is that the USPTO will eventually reject the trademark applications because the phrases have been so widely used and because there is no way to tie them to one unique brand. Therefore they cannot function as trademarks. IANAL but if it were me I'd prepare to have any "Black Lives Matter" products I was selling be removed from Merch by Amazon once those trademark applications are rejected by the USPTO. Or I'd come up with a phrase that could be trademarked and sell those instead.

[@RyanHoguePassiveIncome]

Agree completely. Thanks for checking in with your friend, I don't think anyone should be allowed to trademark it

[@WildSoundscapes]

Hi Ryan, what does it mean when you're in the process of submitting a t-shirt design to Merch and some of the keywords are highlighted in orange? Does this mean they're not ok to use AT ALL? Or does it just mean they are trademarked for things other than t-shirts, so you can use them on T-shirts? I have your Merch Keywords Chrome extension and that has not highlighted any of the text fields. The Merch Informer trademark alerts tool says my highlighted words are not ok, but when I look into it these trademarks are not to do with t-shirts! So can I use them? Other people are! Newbie here finding this such a minefield.

[@cjblackjr]

1st time here, subscribed, notification on, good video lots of info...TY

[@simonsmith8149]

What are your thoughts on splitting key phrases apart within descriptions etc. Say, for example, it was Star Wars (assuming the design itself didn't infringe) and your bullets contained 'be a star at your next party . . . . . . don't have wars with your friends over who had the best t shirt'. Silly example, but you get my meaning. a) is this enough to avoid being flagged by Amazon, and b) would this have a positive effect on search results ?

[@youngminds0909]

Just subscribed after seeing you on phil's channel! TMG community supports you

[@RyanHoguePassiveIncome]

Thanks for the sub!

[@boogardguajardo3583]

i was watching another video earlier about how disney and other big companys are SUEING! because they are useing mickey or disney etc keywords on there product description, title or keywords or hashtags, this i know is for a fact important for Redbubble, Teechip (owned by RB) and Etsy, u can upload a white circle and tag it as star wars, and redbubble instantly pulls it for review so keywords and copyrighted keywords are very harmful or beneficial to your account. I basically label my posts as plane as i can while still kinda describing my product,then on FB and Instagram and Pintrest i use the big no no words lol that way its easier for costumers to find yet safe to use,

[@RyanHoguePassiveIncome]

Etsy should be sued by Disney. That would make my day, they allow infringement on Disney's IP to run rampant on their platform, yet they punish sellers like me that didn't actually infringe on anything! 😟

[@giljimenez4810]

Great content once again, Ryan! Thank you!

[@RyanHoguePassiveIncome]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@z000-y2t]

i work in kdp . should i put the all phrase or should check each work in that phrase alone to find the traemark .

[@czscorpio]

How about political figures, such as the President or presidential candidates? Are they off the table?

[@simonheywood1286]

👍🏾🍷Thank 4 intel my Brotha. Blessings!🙏🏾

[@CesarCinema]

Hey Ryan. Is there a way to upload an image to check if it’s trademark protected? Thanks

[@abdelhafidmez3372]

what if only the word " lives " was trademarked , so is it still okay to use that phrase or no ?

[@livingoverseas5122]

Hi, thank you for the tutorial. If someone trademarks the word I already use on my design. Will I have a problem?

[@walterherrit3644]

If you would put { DAYLIGHT ) led light bulbs in your house for colors to be right at the beginning of your video

[@comments9065]

Hi Ryan, Great video as always, Would you be kind enough to help me understand Trademark and copyright for T-shirt . I really need some advice. I'm struggling with trademark phrases that are safe to use or not. Can you please help me to understand this properly, I really appreciate your informative kind response 1. "I Run To Burn Off The Crazy" this phrase is a TM for class 025; can I safely use this I paint To Burn Off The Crazy whereas "To Burn Off The Crazy" is not TM 2. I'D RATHER BE HIKING! this phrase is a TM for class 025; can I safely use this I'D RATHER BE riding whereas "I'D RATHER BE is not TM 3. Beach Hair Don't Care this phrase is a TM for class 025; can I safely use this horses Hair Don't Care whereas "Hair Don't Care" is not TM 4. EAT SLEEP MEET REPEAT this phrase is a TM for class 025; can I safely use this EAT SLEEP FIX REPEAT whereas "EAT SLEEP REPEAT" is not TM 5. I WORKOUT BECAUSE PUNCHING PEOPLE IS FROWNED UPON to I BAKE BECAUSE PUNCHING PEOPLE IS FROWNED UPON 6. PEACE LOVE WORLD to PEACE LOVE Bake 7. There are many movie names' songs lyrics on a common phrase like "All I Need" "All I want" which are not TM. Is it safe to make designs like All I Need Is Cats, All I Need dogs Etc Thanks a lot again. Hope to get your valuable point of View

[@andresonlineincome9437]

Hey Ryan, informative as always👍🏻 On your screenshot, 2 out of 3 trademarked under 025 was “LIVE” at the bottom. It should be live shouldn’t it?😃 Also, how long in average does it take for a trademark to go fully live? My questions kinda sucks but just trying to get some insights. Thank you!

[@RyanHoguePassiveIncome]

I might not understand the first question. But in my experience, a trademark going live can take 6-8 months. I had my family help file my first one, and currently have a second pending.

[@andresonlineincome9437]

Ryan Hogue Passive Income That’s so cool! Getting your own design trademarked! The 1st question was 2 out of 3 of the black live matter result shows ‘live’ at the bottom of the result page. Shouldn’t that mean it’s been trademarked?

[@bizprofitable9288]

Hey Ryan, any upcoming discounts on any of your courses? 4th of July special or other? Would love to see that. Thx

[@RyanHoguePassiveIncome]

Yes 🙂 Keep an eye out for an email this weekend 👍

[@tlifo]

Hi, what about digital art like SVGs. If there are 5 trademarks "Black Lives Matter" exist, can I sell SVGs with this phrase?

[@MuscleBoomers]

Brother is it important to convert RBG colour to CMYK for red bubble??

[@boogardguajardo3583]

no, eventho there is gonig to be a intermediate difference in shade like bright yellow and shirt left outside in the sun for 2 days yellow. but no no need to do all that work. people go to redbubble for cheep good designs not high quality print thats going to last a long time and be hand made for quality.

[@RyanHoguePassiveIncome]

^ My thoughts as well

[@alicenyw1872]

Not going to lie, it looks kind of intimidating. So many searches done for all countries.

[@roofingsidingpressurewash8963]

Thanks

[@RyanHoguePassiveIncome]

No problem

[@voiceoftricitynews5906]

Can we copy someone else's keywords

[@clellska]

I tried to upload to Amazon “All lives matter “ and it was rejected ! I’m based in UK 🇬🇧 Also I am just starting so I am on trier 10 and every single design goes under review for a day or longer. It doesn’t happen automatically as you say( unfortunately) thanks for great content 👌

[@RyanHoguePassiveIncome]

Sorry about that. Merch is a tricky beast. Sometimes it can be a single word in your bullets or description that triggers a rejection

[@Das0000]

ok but for example "Black Lives Matter " is protected but should we still search for "blacl lives matter " or "black lives matter 777" or even "black lives matter no to racism " to see if they are copyrighted free especilly on trademarkia.com , merch informer or even the USA government site btw are these three sites show the information internationally

[@RyanHoguePassiveIncome]

I'd stay away in general as most approvals algorithms aren't smart enough to know that you what did was OK

[@Das0000]

@@RyanHoguePassiveIncome so I better check and the others as well right?

[@TheLeChiffre]

Some people reported if the trademark has 3 words or more, the amazon algorythm also reacts on variations. Example: "Black Live matter" is trademarked, amazon algorythm would react on "black live matters additional-word"

[@anil-vh1xf]

If i sell Liverpool fc. Tshirt Is it copyright infringement???

[@RyanHoguePassiveIncome]

almost certainly 😆

[@B3NGQwerty]

How many rejections have you have had over the years?

[@RyanHoguePassiveIncome]

In my first year, probably 10-12. In the past year... probably 3-4. I stopped typing out additional keywords in bullets/description if I wasn't 100% sure they were safe

[@B3NGQwerty]

@@RyanHoguePassiveIncome thank you! Have you ever heard of a certain number of rejections which lead to account suspension or does that vary do you think? Because my number is quite a bit higher than that ^^

[@jennyb1650]

Tmg community 😁

[@RyanHoguePassiveIncome]

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