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The Personal Information Protection Act became effective January 1, 2006. The law requires ?data collectors? that own or licenses personal information for any Illinois resident to notify the Illinois resident if there has been any ?breach? in the ?data collectors? computer systems.

Separately. Although you can apply for trademark protection for your name and logo concurrently, each is considered a separate mark. As such, each mark (i.e. your standard character mark and your design mark) requires its own application.

PIPA applies to provincially regulated private sector organizations, businesses and, in some instances, to non-profit organizations for the protection of personal information and to provide a right of access to an individual's personal information.

Illinois has its own data protection law called the ?Personal Information Protection Act,? 815 ILCS §§ 530/1, et seq. (?Act?), that governs the actions businesses who store personal information must take in the event of a data breach.

Common law trademarks are free and do not require any paperwork or forms. There is no way to register a logo trademark for free because you will always have to pay at least a small fee that covers the costs of examining and processing your trademark application. There is no way to get a federal trademark for free.

The Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) specifically requires public universities, such as the University of Illinois, and other data collectors to notify affected individuals whenever a breach of the security of the data collector's system data occurs.