Copyrights protects exact images, art and written words. Your blog is your copyrighted material. Your words and thoughts should be protected against anyone coping and pasting your message to their site without your permission, then claiming the article was written by them.
I've lately had an issue with someone claiming I infringed on their trademark and copyright - but this is not true. I did my research before naming my websites and picked names related to what I do.
Trademarks protects brand names. You can't trademark simple words that are used everyday or a term that just describes what your business does. An example would be GolfTees - this term just describes a T-Shirt company that specializes in Golf... Simply said. Changing the name to ParTees - Now this name could be trademarked as long as it doesn't infringe on another trademark already in the system.
Most everyone out there knows how to search Trademark law before making an accusation against someone, if you need more information about trademark law you can find it at http://www.uspto.gov/
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