Abstract: A technique for generating and evaluating candidate trademarks includes providing a user interface so that a user can specify various criteria via respective interactive controls. The technique further includes searching one or more databases to identify lexical units related to the criteria, applying a set of combination rules to the identified lexical units to generate candidate trademark terms, including calculating respective relationship scores indicative of how closely the candidate trademark terms satisfy the criteria, ranking the candidate trademark terms based on the relationship scores to generate an ordered list, and providing the ordered list of the candidate trademarks and indications of the respective relationship scores via the user interface.

Abstract: A device and method for populating a legal filing with an individual's name exactly as it appears on a government-issued identification document. The individual's name is read using a symbolic barcode on the government-issued identification document without storing, or even reading, other information contained in the symbolic bar code that may contravene applicable laws or regulations relating to the storage of such information. The individual's name exactly as it appears on the government-issued identification document is used to populate a legal filing document.