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Category Archives: News
UPDATE-APPLE PAYS SMALL FORTUNE TO USE IPAD TRADEMARK IN CHINA
In my December 28, 2011 blog entry titled Why Do A Trademark Search? I noted that Proview Technology, a Chinese company that tried to sell a tablet computer called I-PAD a number of years ago, registered that mark in China … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, Chinese trademark law, foreign trademark rights, IPAD, trademark searches, trademark selection
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NEW DOMAIN NAMES BRING NEW CHALLENGES TO PROTECTING YOUR BRAND
On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers published the full list of submissions for new generic top level domains. The owners of these domains will no longer be limited to .net, .com, .org, … Continue reading
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NEW DOMAIN NAMES TO BE ANNOUNCED TOMORROW IN LONDON
Effective Thursday January 12th, ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, will allow applications for new generic Top Level Domains. In English, this means that you will no longer be limited to .NET, .COM, .EDU, .ORG, .US, .XXX, … Continue reading
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Federal Judge Rules Facebook ‘likes’ Not Constitutionally Protected Speech
See http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/05/04/facebook-like-ruling.html
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9th CIRCUIT RULES ON EMPLOYEE USE OF WORK COMPUTERS
The 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. § 1830) made criminal intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization or exceeding authorized access to that computer and thereby obtaining information it as well as doing so with the intent … Continue reading
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Tagged Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, dating sites, employee e-mail, hacking, Judge Kozinski
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PROTECTING YOUR I.P. WHILE ABROAD
In my prior blog posts I have written about the importance of protecting your intellectual property. In the case of a useful process, machine, article of manufacture or composition of matter, protection might involve obtaining a patent. In the case … Continue reading
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Tagged China, electronic surveillance, encryption, espionage, hard drives, laptops, piracy, Russia, smartphones, trade secrets, traveling abroad, unfair competition
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DON’T WAIT TO REGISTER YOUR MARK!
Outside the U.S. and Canada, most countries are “first-to-register” countries. This means that trademark rights are not acquired by using your name on your storefront, website or product package, but by registering that name with that country’s respective trademark registrar. … Continue reading
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USING COLOR TO BRAND EFFECTIVELY
A January 19, 2012 Website Magazine blog post (See http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2012/01/19/the-meaning-behind-color.aspx ) discussed the meanings that certain colors evoke to consumers. I summarize that post below: The author of that piece noted that “red” was the “color that eyes are drawn … Continue reading
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Tagged advantages of trademark registration, brand identity. branding, brand protection, chicago trademark attorney, color, trademark attorney, trademark counsel, trademark lawyer, trademark selection
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WHY DO A TRADEMARK SEARCH?
What do these two well-known tech companies have in common? One saw its earnings drop 71% in the third quarter of this year and its share of the smart phone market in the United States drop from 30% to 18%. … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, BlackBerry, Chinese trademark law, IPAD, Research In Motion, smart phone market share, trademark opinions, trademark searches
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PICKING BRAND NAMES IN CHINA IS A BUSINESS ITSELF
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COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY
Anyone who operates a website can be construed as operating an interactive computer service as he is providing computer access by multiple users to the computer server on which his website resides and Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency … Continue reading
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Tagged communcations decency act, defamation, immunity, website content, website liability, website practice
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AVOIDING BRAND “REHAB”
I recently wrote a post about the new .XXX domain names which, while they are intended for use by members of the adult entertainment industry, could find themselves appended to your trademark or domain name if members of that industry … Continue reading
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Tagged advantages of trademark registration, Amy Winehouse, brand identity, brand protection, branding, cybersquatting, domain name registration, trademark registration
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YOUR TRADEMARK/BRAND COULD BECOME X-RATED
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved the establishment of a new Internet top-level domain, e.g., .NET, .COM for sexually explicit material. This new domain is .XXX and may be used by providers of online adult … Continue reading
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