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Hi have dealt, come across the same situation you facing right now so i can really help you,
although i am not a lawyer i have incorporate my company Heatrock Entertainment Inc. here in the state of NY, and there's alot of people, in my state, other states, and companies that's using my corps' name "Heatrock" and have similar name like Heatrock Productions, and even the same name heatrock entertainment inc. right now which im looking to sue real soon, you can email me,

i can help you because i already did a trademark search of the name One Vision Productions that you want to use, and the closest i cam with your name being used was One Viisiion Productions, LLC they are located in MARYLAND, so as long its not in New York, your state, you can start and use it, but to protect this name "One Vision Productions" after incorporating it forming it to an LLC, you gonna have to trademark it which i can help you do all that for a small fee, email me at: skydalimit1@gmail.com

It can be difficult to sort out this issue. I started my company, Advanced Insurance Management, as a sole proprietorship back in 1987. I applied for and received a trademark on that name back a few years ago, but that gives only limited protection. First off, my trademark only applies to specific kinds of commercial enterprises, not to others. So there is some other insurance related entitity that started a couple of years ago, in some other part of the country, that uses the name Advanced Insurance Management. Since they don't do the same kind of work we do, it's probably not a fight I could win--at the very least, I've decided that it's not worth the effort to find out. They don't do the same kind of work we do, so it's probably arguable that there could be confusion caused by their use of that name.

Back in 2006, I changed my business to an LLC, we're now Advanced Insurance Management LLC. That may give us some additional protections, but who knows.

This trademark stuff can be difficult. Back in 1995, I published a book under the title CompControl (because it was all about how employers could control their Workers Comp costs.) But I didn't register that term as a trademark back then. When I subsequently tried to do so, back in 2007, I learned that someone else had already done so--and my use of the term for my book gave me no claim over the term. I had to remove that term from some of my web materials, because the person that had registered the name contacted me and pointed out that they held the trademark (and we were both in similar kinds of work.)

Your best bet, I think, would be either come up with a new name, or some more unique version of this name that you could then trademark. (VisionOne Productions? Vision 1 Productions? You get the idea.)

Good luck.