My February Web Watch column for Law Technology News reviewed a number of sites for patent and
trademark searching on the Web.
I wrote last May about Apptorney IP, an app that facilitated patent and
trademark searching on an iPhone by providing direct links to the appropriate sections of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website.
It's important to run
a trademark search on the website of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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).
Not exact matches
But you should consider hiring a
trademark attorney or at least a
trademark search firm before to make sure your new name doesn't infringe
on another business's
trademark.
Do a
search for biscuits and cookies to find vegan biscuits and cookies
on our
Trademark search: http://www.vegansociety.com/
search/products Lots of common biscuits are vegan - friendly too like Jammie Dodgers, Fox's dark chocolate chunkie cookies, lots of ginger nuts / chocolate bourbons, Aldi's dark chocolate digestives, etc..
In
Trademarked Products, users can enter keywords relating to the product they wish to find, refining their
search via subcategories that appear
on the right hand side.
• For any
search functionality
on your website using Radisson Hotel Group
trademarks, (i) Radisson Hotel Group Links that contain RadissonBlu.com or parkinn.com in the title must connect the user directly back to the RadissonBlu.com or parkinn.com sites; and (ii) such Link must be supplied to you by Radisson Hotel Group.
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search engines based
on the purchase of Radisson Hotel Group
trademarked keyword terms, used alone or in conjunction with any other word or phrase.
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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.
For fast filing needs, we can quickly do the
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The Intellectual Property battle over the use of
trademarks as keywords for the purpose of triggering advertisements
on Google's
search result pages can be seen in the cases (most notably) C -236-238 / 08 Google / Louis Vuitton, C - 558 / 08 Portakabin, C - 324 / 09 L'Oréal / eBay and C - 323 / 09 Interflora.
Specifically, the main features provide free support in the reporting and policing of Amazon
trademark and copyright violations including a user interface to
search and police the brand
on Amazon, as well as expedited violation reporting tools.
A
trademark «
search» can identify other users and / or claims
on the
trademark you own or are seeking to register.
Since even a basic
trademark search can be time consuming, keep a spreadsheet or notebook
on hand to track your results and make any notes.
I advise to conduct an availability
search of your trade name,
trademark, and service mark in Japan,
on the outset.
By
searching every official site that I can find, I can not find any form of
trademark for the opposing company, and our logos are different (our names sound similar when said out loud) so we can not be infringing
on copyright that way.
This is an add -
on for an additional $ 149, which includes a comprehensive
search of federal and state
trademark databases (all 50 states).
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.
In
trademark litigation proof of a
search which does not show a previously registered mark can lower possible damages if you are found to be infringing
on another entities mark.
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In Google Inc. v. Equustek Solutions Inc. 2017 SCC 34, the Court confirmed that Canadian courts can grant orders prohibiting the infringement of Canadian
trademarks and the enabling of
trademark infringement wherever that occurs, including
on foreign
search indexes that list infringing websites.
Increasingly what we are seeing as
trademark lawyers is that due to budgetary constraints, clients are relying
on Google, EUIPO or USPTO when
searching and clearing a
trademark.
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Furthermore, the
trademark seems to be registered by an university, and a
search on Google yields little relevant results, with only abstract promotional material about some research (which makes little sense as to what actual product they are planning to sell, if any) but no clear product.
Conduct preliminary
searches on potential
trademarks for clients, and prepare
search result reports
BTW: Toronto.mls.realestatebay.ca is illegally using CREA MLS
trademarks to RANK # 3 in Google for any
search on Toronto MLS.
In the suit, Edina Realty Inc., an affiliate of HomeServices of America Inc., charged that another brokerage competing in the same market used the
trademarked name «Edina Realty» as an embedded
search term
on its site to capture Internet leads.
Practically, RE / MAX would not want to harm it's Agent Brand users or Consumer Brand users, so as is evident online today Legacy appears to have a couple of days grace
on Brand Useage, Now you would have to do a NUANS
search to see the Registered name of the company but I would assume RE / MAX would not allow their
trademarks to be used in that manner.
Weeks ago I posted about a beautiful coneflower that I discovered this summer, and, while
searching for information
on it I discovered a whole world of coneflowers from the Cone - fections (
trademarked) series, introduced by AB Cultivars of the Netherlands.