Meet Tom - Our 'Name Clearance Guy'

Hear from Tom Hope, our co-founder here at Appella about how he works hard behind the scenes to provide the clearance on prior rights for names. As part of our process we come up with a long list of names which are 'possibles' so Tom's first job is to run preliminary clearance on those names. This involves looking at a number of databases throughout the world - a global name for example could involve 150 trademark registries.

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