Google Plus Squatting: How Google Aims to Protect Brands

As Social Squatting has increasingly become a problem for brands, Google is busy pioneering ways for global companies to protect their brand. Like with most major initiatives by the search giant, this does not come without controversy.

Cyber Squatting, Domain Squatting, Typo Squatting – Social Squatting?

As the proliferation of Social Media escalates unabated, brand legal teams are always attempting to close down accounts and user names that harm their brands and/or trademarks via infringement. Protecting your brand on the vast array of social media platforms each with their own policies and procedures is no easy feat.

Cyber Squatting, Domain Squatting, Typo Squatting – Social Squatting?

As the proliferation of Social Media escalates unabated, brand legal teams are always attempting to close down accounts and user names that harm their brands and/or trademarks via infringement. Protecting your brand on the vast array of social media platforms each with their own policies and procedures is no easy feat.

Brand Protection: Violating Your Domain Name Violates Your Trademark

The web is a place that is pretty much untamed. It’s acronym, WWW, could stand for the Wild Wild Web. Hence, it is making it harder and harder for marketers to implement brand protection. In the context of the World Wide Web, a violation of a trademark typically occurs when:

Brand Protection: Violating Your Domain Name Violates Your Trademark

The web is a place that is pretty much untamed. It’s acronym, WWW, could stand for the Wild Wild Web. Hence, it is making it harder and harder for marketers to implement brand protection. In the context of the World Wide Web, a violation of a trademark typically occurs when: