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Social Media and Trademarks: Protecting Your Brand Online

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In today’s digital-first world, trademarks are more visible—and vulnerable—than ever. Social-media platforms offer powerful brand exposure, but they also present new challenges for protecting your intellectual property. ...more

Lippes Mathias LLP

Do Intentions Matter?: New Intellectual Property Perils in the Digital Age

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If you’re an artist, creative person, or content creator (and who isn’t these days?), or you work on the creative side of brand marketing, you probably have some pre-existing assumptions about whether and when you can use...more

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

Trademark Rights In The Metaverse: Lessons Gleaned From The Hermes MetaBirkin Case

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Consider this scenario: you worked hard for many years and spent thousands of dollars building your brand. You even took the proper precautions and registered your trademark with the U.S. Trademark Office. Thanks to all that...more

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Internet Eviction: Using the UDRP to Boot Cybersquatters

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Cybersquatters often exploit brand owners by demanding a large payment for a domain name that is similar to the brand owner’s trademark. Cybersquatters may also seek to profit from rerouting internet traffic intended for the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Takeaways from the Hermès Litigation over MetaBirkins NFTs

The highly anticipated jury verdict in the Hermès litigation over MetaBirkins NFTs has some important takeaways for both artists and sellers of NFTs as well as brand owners....more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Unauthorized Blockchain Domain Names: What's a Brand to Do?

Just when you thought you had a handle on domain name enforcement, blockchain technology has given rise to blockchain domain names, which bring novel and complex challenges. There are currently millions of blockchain domain...more

Smart & Biggar

Domain name solicitation fraud – brand owners beware

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Overview - It is a modern reality that with brand ownership comes the risk of trademark and domain name fraud. In this area, there has recently been a rise in email scams targeting brand owners by falsely claiming that...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

MarkIt to Market® - June 2019: Blockchain-Based Names: New Frontier for Brands (and Squatters)

Blockchain technology has garnered attention from various sectors over the past ten years, much of it due to the rise of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrencies have gained popularity and notoriety for their...more

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.CLUB launches brand protection service

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.CLUB Domains, the Registry operating the .CLUB new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD), has recently launched a new service that enables qualified trade mark holders to block .CLUB domain name registrations containing their...more

Butler Snow LLP

Winning the Domain Name Game: A Clear Cut Process for Protecting Your Business or Brand from Cybersquatters

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So you want to register a domain name for your company’s registered trademark only to find out, it’s already been claimed by someone other than you. Even worse, someone has incorporated your trademark into his domain name and...more

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WIPO: Cybersquatting reaches all-time high with the introduction of new gTLDs

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The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency based in Geneva that administers the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), issued a press release last month revealing that...more

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