[dtengineering]

It might be an interesting exercise for a team to go through the process of preparing a trademark application and researching the costs and steps involved, and assessing the benefits that it could convey.

One of the first things you'll learn is that patents and trademarks are two completely separate things. And then you'll learn something about copyright, too. And then you'll learn that an American patent or trademark is only valid in the United States... for actual world wide protection you've got to file all over the place and in many different languages.

Intellectual property is a very interesting field. If you are interested in it, then pursue that interest. I don't see it offering any immediate advantage to your team, but if you learn about IP in the process that is a benefit in itself.

Jason