{"id":847,"date":"2010-07-15T17:30:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T00:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullivant.wpengine.com\/?p=847"},"modified":"2021-03-21T12:22:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T19:22:52","slug":"ip-notices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/ip-notices\/","title":{"rendered":"Official-Appearing IP Notices Raise Warning Flags"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong>Don&#8217;t be fooled \u2013 protect your IP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Periodically, some of our clients have reported receiving official-appearing notices that raise concerns about their IP. One type of notice purports to come from a registrar of Asian country code domain names (TLDs), including .cn and .hk. These notices suggest that a third party has applied to the Asian domain registrar to register a domain containing our client&#8217;s trademark.<\/p>\n<p>The notices seek to create a sense of urgency and concern, and may imply that our client could lose trademark rights unless it first registers \u2013 for a fee \u2013 Asian TLDs based on its trademark. Usually, these notices originate from a fee-based domain name registration service, and not from an official domain name registrar. Often, these notices are nothing but marketing devices employing fear to drive fee-based domain name registration.<\/p>\n<p>A second type of notice relates to our clients&#8217; U.S. trademark maintenance. Some clients receive an official-appearing trademark notice raising a concern about upcoming trademark maintenance filings. The notice offers trademark monitoring and filing services for a fee. These trademark maintenance notices have created such a stir around the country that the U.S. Patent &amp; Trademark Office has posted a warning on its website concerning these notices. The PTO advises that it does not provide fee-based trademark monitoring and maintenance filing services, and that these official-appearing notices do not originate from the PTO.<\/p>\n<p>Should you receive a notice relating to domain name services or trademark monitoring and filing services, contact the IP Group of Bullivant Houser Bailey for assistance. Protect your IP and do not become a victim.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Don&#8217;t be fooled \u2013 protect your IP Periodically, some of our clients have reported receiving official-appearing notices that raise concerns about their IP. One type of notice purports to come from a registrar of Asian country code domain names (TLDs), including .cn and .hk. These notices suggest that a third party has applied to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[198],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intellectual-property","tag-insights","authorormentioned-michael-ratoza","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioactiv8.com\/bullivant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}