Protect Brand Names

November 16, 2008
Intellectual Property News and Interesting Facts

Brand names should be protected as far as possible with competition being no longer only local, but also international. A company may think that they have 100% ownership over their brand names, but may look on the Internet just to find that various websites throw around similar brand names.

Stealing brand names not registered has become quite common and the only way to safeguard against such actions is by registering the brand names and by taking legal action where required against misuse and unauthorized usage of a company’s registered brand names.

If found that there is due cause for legal action, the issue should be handed over to patent and trademark lawyers to handle in a professional manner. The first step to the protection of brand names however, is to register them in the correct manner.

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+27 (0) 12 349 7800

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+27 (0) 86 619 0493

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Pretoria
0184
South Africa

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