Which IP protection helps protect brand names, logos, and business names?

• A. Trade secret
• B. Trademark
• C. Patent
• D. Copyright

Answer: (B)

Trademark protects the identity of a brand in the marketplace by giving you exclusive rights to use a specific name, logo, or business name on goods and services, so customers recognize and trust your source. Registration strengthens this protection and helps you enforce it against imitators. While trade secrets guard confidential information, patents protect inventions, and copyrights shield original works of authorship, none of these protect brand identifiers in the same broad, commerce-wide way as a trademark. Logos can be protected by copyright as artwork, but the main mechanism for preventing others from using the same brand identity is trademark.