Sell a trademark?

It is my understanding that a http://www.legal-database.com/cybersquatting.htm if you want to stand a chance of protecting said trademark. Also, if someone infringes on this mark, you would need to show that it caused confusion in the marketplace.

could cause confusion...

pmbuko is generally correct. Trademarks are pretty much limited to "marks used in commerce", but nowadays you can register first and then actually engage in commerce with it within a short period of time afterward. The system intentionally makes it difficult to "reserve" marks to prevent speculation on future names and to prevent people from locking-up all the good ones. On the other hand, nowadays just buy the domain and you accomplish a lot of the same task.

Yeah, I think you actually have to sell some kind of product or service under the mark before you can register it. Other than actually registering domain names I don't think there's a lot you can do in this situation, but IANAL.

I feel like the folks that register a domain name and then sit waiting for it to sell. Is the domain available? It would be another way to strengthen your ownership claim. If it is taken, is it used as an acronym? I thought the acronym was ITMTBM. Heh.

Thanks for the info folks. geekyguy, the sad thing is I had to read my own post 3 times to find ITMTBM, sigh, long day.

IANAL, but as I understand it, you can't have a trademark that's not attached to a specific product or service you provide. The trademark registration includes the "date of first use" of the trademark. This can be a date in the future (e.g. for a product under development) but you can't have a trademark without the product. Perhaps you can get away with a relatively inspecific plan for a future product or service? You'd have to seek professional help on how to pull that off, I think.

I see people in the south wearing G.R.I.T.S. (Girl Raised in the South) T-shirts and hats. Someone's making money off of that.

Well, if it is worth anything, it's just an acronym idea, and the most someone would pay for the idea is maybe $500-$1000. As previous posters have said, though, it's pretty impossible to legally protect an acronym idea. (Which, IMO, is a good thing.) And without being able to protect it, it's going to be pretty hard to "sell" it. So your only real option, if you think it's really that brilliant, is to use it yourself, and trademark. Or just tell us what it is and be done with it. :)