{"id":12353,"date":"2026-05-13T13:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=12353"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:59:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:59:45","slug":"sbdc-to-host-trademark-basics-workshop-may-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2026\/05\/13\/sbdc-to-host-trademark-basics-workshop-may-19\/","title":{"rendered":"SBDC to host Trademark Basics workshop May 19\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/TM-310x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/TM-200x109.png 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/TM-310x168.png 310w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/TM-400x217.png 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/TM-600x326.png 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/TM-768x417.png 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/TM-800x434.png 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/TM-1024x556.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/TM-1200x651.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/TM.png 1423w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/>May 13, 2026\u2013The Small Business Development Center at Missouri Western State University will present a workshop titled Trademark Basics at 3 p.m. Tuesday, May 19, at The Launch Pad, 801 Felix Street in Downtown St. Joseph. The workshop is free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The workshop presented by SBDC and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is designed to help small business owners learn the basics of filing for a trademark to protect their ideas, brand and creations before problems arise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participants may register in advance at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/griff.vn\/TMBasics26\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">griff.vn\/TMBasics26<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. For more information, contact Shelbie Wigington, SBDC business advisor, at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:swigington@missouriwestern.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">swigington@missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Missouri Western State University is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. MoWest is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 13, 2026\u2013The Small Business Development Center at Missouri Western State University will present a workshop titled Trademark Basics at 3 p.m. Tuesday, May 19, at The Launch Pad, 801 Felix Street in Downtown St. Joseph. The workshop is free. The workshop presented by SBDC and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is designed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1402,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12358,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353\/revisions\/12358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}