Abhyanker, an attorney and owner of LegalForce RAPC, a patent and trademark law firm in California, and Trademarkia,
a trademark search engine, says the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and state bars are not doing their jobs regulating these new legal service providers.
And
his trademark search engine Trademarkia brought in $ 7.3 million in 2012, filing about 9,000 trademarks at prices as low as $ 484 for the simplest applications.
Add in an attorney whose
trademark search engine bests the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office system while his prices stay low, a general counsel taking outside law firms to school for not knowing their own software, and a lawyer / software engineer invoking the name of Hammurabi as he turns law into computer code.
Trademarkia (LegalForce, Inc.), is one of the largest
trademark search engines in the world.
Not exact matches
-- New Visual
Search Engine Released by ShipCompliant Allows Brand and
Trademark Protection with Robust Research Capabilities and Immediate Market Intelligence --(Boulder, CO)-- With the launch of ShipCompliant's LabelVision tool, all text and information embedded in the more than 1.5 million federally approved alcohol beverage labels going back 20 years is now accessible and searchable.
Maybe it's the fact that ChaCha is already the registered
trademark of a mobile
search engine?
Consider, if a customer enters a generic english word that happens to also be a narrow
trademark into a
search engine, even a
search engine that is
searching for commercial products within the domain covered by the
trademark, I guess it's technically possible (at least in the US) to simultaneously perform a
trademark search on the term and not echo back the
search term to the customer to avoid infringing the
trademark on the
search results page (I guess that would be serving the customer, according to the judge).
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trademarked keyword terms, used alone or in conjunction with any other word or phrase.
«The aim behind this blog is to produce information and news about
trademarks, copyright, Internet marketing, social networking,
search engine optimization, protection of reputations and brands on the internet, using our perspective as lawyers specializing in this area.
Big Mouth concludes with the prediction that «it seems more than likely that Google's
trademark lawyers will be busy in 2008 as the
search engine fights to protect one of the world's most famous brands.»
ACLU, Baseball, Google /
Search Engines, Intellectual Property, Job
Searches, Laurence Tribe, Non-Sequiturs, Prostitution, Sex, Technology,
Trademarks
As Google has grown into the world's most popular
search engine and, arguably, the most powerful Internet company, it has become entangled in scores of lawsuits touching on a wide range of legal questions, including copyright violation,
trademark infringement and its method of ranking Web sites.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge and
Engine have submitted comments [PDF] to the US Patent and
Trademark Office explaining how examiners could improve the quality of patents that the USPTO issues by expanding their
search for «prior art» (that is, evidence that the thing under discussion has already been...