In this exercise you must act as an attorney and conduct a "trademark search" to see if it is possible to "clear" one of the following proposed trademarks:

If your last name is A-M you are being asked to clear the following two possibletrademarks for a new company specializing in womenswearbased on South Asian design: Maharani or Taj

Focus especially on what makes a "strong" trademark. Learn also how to avoid "weak" or "generic" trademarks. Although you are free to give your business feedback on the proposed trademark, it is more important that you give your legal opinion on the strength of their proposed trademark(s). This means you will first have to go to theuspto.gov website and do a TESS search to see if there are any potential conflicts. You may wish tosupplementyour TESS search with a common-sense Google search. BE CAREFUL NOT TO GO TO THE USPTO.COM WEBSITE! THE CORRECT WEBSITE IS USPTO.GOV CLICK ON TRADEMARKS, THEN ON TRADEMARK SEARCH, THEN DO A WORD MARK SEARCH IN THE TESS DATABASEBasically, you are looking to see if there are other similar names already taken, or if the proposed name is too generic, too geographical, or has other problems. POST YOUR LEGAL (AND -- IF APPROPRIATE -- BUSINESS) ANALYSIS OF YOUR ASSIGNED TRADEMARKS