Thursday, July 1, 2010

TRADEMARK CONFLICT WITH DOMAIN NAME


BY:Abbas Saghali

We can define a trademark as a name,symbol,motto and design which  legally introduces a company and is representative for its products and services.But from the first days that  domain name was improved in cyber space,stakeholders of companies had a conflict with it.The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals recently ruled that a firm in  business  must use its domain name to sell products  and its services.this is accomplished in order to have a protection on  the name.In other words ,just reserving a domain name cannot be sufficient for a company and they should use their trademark in terms of domain name.
Fortunately, it's easy to register your domain name as a trademark:
Conduct a trademark search  helps to find any trademarks that conflict with those type of names that you want to use as domain name.At this point,the notorious conflict between trademark and domain name users can be decreased.Although regarding of using famouse trademarks for some individuals and groups, Conduct a trademark search is not full stop for the conflict. 
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