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Comment This month Google changed its policy on selling keyword search terms containing trademarks. As of the beginning of this month Google will no longer police the unauthorised use of trademarks in any new keyword purchases.
[30 Apr 2008]
Leader But any business which today is choosing trademarks or reviewing trademark contracts - and hoping to escape multimillion-pound legal fees and settlements - should attempt not just to 'think different' but to 'think big' and protect its interests...
[08 May 2006]
Comment Trademarks are badges of origin and function to distinguish goods or service from one company from those of another. Most English lawyers would nevertheless advise their clients to be wary of using meta tags or keywords which are identical to...
[27 Apr 2005]
Comment Orange clearly owns trademarks on the use of 'orange' pertaining to telecommunications. And why not? These companies are among the most aggressive marketers around, in many cases building strong and alluring brands in just a few years.
[13 Aug 2004]
Comment And an enterprising federal judge in New York did his own Google search to demonstrate that a watch, jeans and handbag retailer named Alfredo Versace was infringing the trademarks of the famous Gianni Versace design house.
[13 May 2004]
Comment In the same way criminals rip off trademarks and famous brands - from clothes to music and movies to works of art - so these criminals are ripping off others hard work. Ego-surfing - the practice of typing your own name into a search engine to find...
[15 Mar 2004]
Comment But once you step outside the legally comfortable world of trademarks, who gets to decide the rules? Cybersquatting has always been an emotive issue. The idea that someone would maliciously register a domain name to injure reputation - whether of...
[06 Sep 2001]
Comment They registered UK trademarks on 16 different versions of the word i-mode - using upper case, lower case, with a hyphen, with a dot, with both and with neither. Acronyms aren't easy to sell. Try thinking of a snappy slogan to sell GPRS to a...
[15 Dec 2000]
Comment In fact, as Armstrong explains, if a similar infringement case were to arise in the UK, it could be defended under the UK Trademarks Act 1994, which provides for the use of trademarks in advertisements as long as it falls under "honest practice".
[19 Oct 2000]
Comment The practice of including the trademarks of others in the code for a Web page - called meta-tagging - to attract business is a clear infringement of rights. Q. If we sell product into another EU country from a UK-based Web site and no-one has...
[05 Jun 2000]
Comment The problem, according to Nick Lockett, Internet expert at law firm, Sidley & Austin, is simple: "Trademarks clash head on with the Internet. Trademarks are geographic and the Internet is international by definition.
[06 Sep 1999]
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