Month: September 2013
Cybersquatting vs Trademark Registration – How trademark registration can shield you from cybersquatting?
How registration of trademarks can kill cybersquatters? What is cybersquatting? Cybersquatting is an internet terminology that involves registering a domain name of interest to someone else (e.g. a business of that name) in the hope of…
Caution: Using registered trademarks as keywords for online advertisements?
Using Trademarks as Keywords E-commerce has been continuously evolving over the past few years, so has been the trademark laws worldwide. This has been a common practice among the online business entities to use the competitors’ brand name, slogan, domain name, product name as keywords. This strategy is essentially a trick of displaying aids targeted…
“Use it or lose it” if you are not using your trademark after filing, you must read this!
Use it or Lose it – Trademark Intellectual Property (IP) rights in itself is a negative right. Unlike other kinds of intellectual property such as Patents, Copyrights, Designs, Trademark is the only right that one can have in his possession for his lifetime when in use and renewed. This simply means a registered…