Has anyone registered/trademarked their own company?

[F34R]

Has anyone gone through setting their own business up legally? My leather company is really going strong and I feel it is the next step past a 'profitable hobby'. I did a bit of research, but found only a bunch of sites that require a payment(not upset over that), I want to make sure I am doing it right and not wasting my money. I already did a search in the trademark database for anyone with 'BWeiss Leather', nothing in the USA, but it only matters if it is the the same state as you. Both are a negative, I am just looking for some advice from someone that has gone through it before. I am meeting up with my tax lady to setup a portion of legal things for my new company in the coming month. Right now with only word of mouth, I am doing considerably well. Hoping with my new website and attending local and other NY craft markets I will someday be able to go to work daily doing what I love.

If anyone has missed out on what I do, take a look! any word of mouth spreading is greatly appreciated! I also have business cards for anyone or business that wants to place some out for me.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/BWeissLeather

https://www.facebook.com/BweissLeather?ref=hl

https://twitter.com/bweissleather

http://instagram.com/bweissleather

Also an awesome review!

http://www.meshedesigns.blogspot.com/2014/06/b-weiss-leather-belt-and-watch.html

[mbonder]

Go through New York State website. They will have a section there for businesses. You just need to file with the state for the name and business entity (assuming LLC or something similar). I formed a contracting business 8 years ago.

I did this in NJ, cost me something like $90 to register with the state. You'll get a tax ID number so you can pay quarterly sales taxes to the state. Beyond that everything is on your end for insurance/federal taxes etc.

[F34R]

Perfect, not sure why I did not think of that...thanks!

[MC Hammered]

Registering your business and trademarking the name are two different things.

I registered my company in BC and Podi is a dba, pretty simple to do and this is more for tax reporting requirements than anything else. This would be a Provincial/State registration so someone else in another province/state could use the same name.

I trademarked "Podi" in Canada and the USA and this is a country wide registration of use. I used a law firm that specializes on IP to help me file the paperwork as I had some extra funds but no time.

It did not cost a lot to do the trademark and if you wanted to speak to the firm I used just PM me.