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Trademark Infringement in the Digital Age

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction In today’s digital economy, trademarks play an important role in developing a brand’s identity, establishing customer trust, and assuring market competition. Trademark violation raises significant issues. Cybersquatting is another type of trademark infringement.

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Intellectual Property Rights for Social Media Influencers

IIPRD

A common issue among digital influencers is whether the content they generate is protected by intellectual property rights. Types of Intellectual Property Rights applicable to Digital Influencers. However, in order to have legal proof of ownership, it is always advisable to register for copyright registration.

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Trademark Issues: How is Social Media Becoming the New Target for Cybersquatting?

Kashishipr

A trademark refers to a legally registered word or symbol representing a specific product or service of a company. Therefore, we can say that a trademark serves as a helping hand in gaining more uniqueness and popularity everywhere, including on platforms as prevalent as the internet.

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Fresh blow to counterfeiters: they will have to indemnify trademark owners for moral damage, even if they have not sold the counterfeit products

Garrigues Blog

A Supreme Court ruling last 13 July establishes that the mere possession of counterfeit products and their display for sale entails “reputational damage” for the protected trademarks concerned. Additionally, the greater the prestige of a trademark, the greater the level of protection that that sign should deserve to obtain from the courts.

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Can You Trademark A Hashtag?

Kashishipr

Therefore, the prime role of such hashtags needs to be assessed in line with the Trademark Law to deduce whether they qualify for trademark protection. The trend of incentivizing hashtags as trademarks began way back in 2010, and since then, the filing of such Trademark Applications has spiked globally.

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Protecting our Trademark Customers with Federal Registration of USPTO Marks

U.S. Department of Commerce

Protecting our Trademark Customers with Federal Registration of USPTO Marks. Intellectual property. Guest blog by David Gooder, Commissioner for Trademarks . Recently, the Department of Commerce took another important step to protect trademark customers by filing for federal registration of the USPTO marks.

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Use of a trademark as keyword in Google’s Ad Programme amounts to Use and Constitutes Infringement – Delhi High Court

Selvam & Selvam Blog

FAO(OS)(COMM) 2 of 2022), involved a dispute as to whether displaying/ encouraging the use of a registered trademark of the Respondent to display third party’s website links, which were infringing the Respondent’s trademark, amounts to infringement. DRS Logistics (P) Ltd., (FAO(OS)(COMM)