[header] How to copyright a name [title] Find out whether your name is strong enough to trademark. [step] You must determine whether your name, or " mark, " is considered strong by the standards of the united states patent and trademark office (uspto). To be strong, a mark must have a meaning that uniquely represents your product or services and could not be confused with someone else's. 
The upsto divides marks into four different categories, from strongest to weakest, and only the strongest have a chance of getting trademarked. Here are the categories : [substeps] Fanciful and arbitrary.