re: Violet - The Violet Cake Shop™

No, it’s not a registered trademark (those are marked with an ‘R’ inside a circle), so you don’t have to apply or pay for it but it just lets people know the name is my intellectual property, like when people use the copyright symbol. You can check it out trademarks on-line at Wikipedia which is where I looked it up (plus a few other sites but I can’t remember the others offhand right now).

Violet - The Violet Cake Shop™ - http://www.facebook.com/TheVioletCakeShop