Mar 05
Christina asked:
What kind of legal points and grant a license should do and home sales made soap? I'm starting my own line of skin care and the child's natural that I wonder if anyone can help out with what I do until authorizations, patents, trademarks? , Etc to make sure I'm doing everything legal and no one copy my brand. I will do them myself in the country. The FDA has something to do with this or the department of health?
What kind of legal points and grant a license should do and home sales made soap? I'm starting my own line of skin care and the child's natural that I wonder if anyone can help out with what I do until authorizations, patents, trademarks? , Etc to make sure I'm doing everything legal and no one copy my brand. I will do them myself in the country. The FDA has something to do with this or the department of health?
Tags: Baby Care, Baby Skin Care, Legal Actions, Legal Steps, Natural Baby, Skin Care, Soaps
March 8th, 2009 at 4:57 am
You probably need $1,000,000 or more of product liability insurance — esp to sell to any chain stores. I’m guessing this could cost you $1500 a year — but that is a real guess. And you need to be a business — a sole prop or a subchapter S corp are your most likely choices — depends on your finances.
Things like soap are really hard to copyright or trademark unless you have something really revolutionary. And you must be ready to spend a LOT to defend these protections — otherwise you are probably best not bothering. Good luck.
March 10th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
You cannot patent a natural substance, or a combination of natural substances…you can only patent the name.
That is why recipies, for Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Perfumes, etc..are closely guarded, b/c if they go out, there is nothing that legally stops someone from producing the same thing, they just can’t MARKET the product under the same name.