Recent content by V Narayan

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    Suggestion for a good business account

    Hi All I am in the process of identifying the right business account. The key thing for me is that I have two main transactions 1. payments to my suppliers in India 2. Payments coming in from shopify payments I was thinking of going for a UK bank account like HSBC or TSB etc. But my key...
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    Questions on how to handle imports from India

    3 - what shipping? Air freight or by ship? Deal with a shipping agent to get stuff from place to place - they can arrange everything to get it to your door from the supplier. Lots of shipping agents around, we are a group of islands. By ship - because the supplier has the option to ship to me...
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    Questions on how to handle imports from India

    Hi Everyone, So we are starting a company in the UK which are based on home textles. I am trying to figure out how to do my shipping and whether i would need a import license to do the same. 1. All our items are home textiles items and its packaging. 2. Our first order is small in quantity -...
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    Trademarking Confusion

    History and Reputation is that we are a brand which are supplying and supplied to major UK companies.
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    Trademarking Confusion

    Thank you very much for all your inputs. Managed to speak to a lawyer and found a solution for the same. TA.
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    Trademarking Confusion

    Mr D - thanks for the reply. Yes That definitely what I am planning to do, but i briefly spoke to the lawyer about this on Friday and it confused me and reading more on this is confusing me bigger. I wanted to know if any of the forum members faced similar issues, or anything scenarios etc then...
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    Paid Advertisements

    Possible - rookie mistake. Getting my head around it. :)
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    Trademarking Confusion

    Also - the reason about going with the same company is its history and reputation. and just to be clear JANAUO is a dictionary word in a different language which is used to collective classify our USP
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    Trademarking Confusion

    Hi Chris Thanks for the reply So just to understand - i set it up as JANAUO HOME and trade mark it. If tomorrow a company comes and trade mark JANAUO in the UK in the same class, will we be notified and do we have the right to object even though we are not JANAUO rather than JANAUO HOME? Also...
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    Trademarking Confusion

    Also, since I have been reading about it - can a EU company who (May or may not) be shipping to UK claim this unregistered rights(passing off) on UK company? Also in the scenario of Brexit, I am reading that the existing EU trademarks will be valid in UK going forward. I checked and I could see...
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    Trademarking Confusion

    Hi Me and my wife is setting up a company in the UK and we were considering to trade mark it. company's history - The idea was developed by my wife back in 2010 when she did her college thesis(i wished she would have patented it back then :( ). We both are from India. So once she completed...
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    Shopify or BigCommerce?

    i use shopify - just because i can keep the initial set up cost down and easier to build
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    Need advice on importing clothing from China.

    i need to find a similr thread for importing from India - sticky with a link to different such ones would be a nice one
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    Really Good Websites

    depends on the market - websites are designed for different crowd IMO. Amazon is mass sales, not on the high street is for a different one