1. IP Issues Around Domain Names and Social Media
By
SandeepHegde M.
Email: sandeep@brainleague.com
website: www.brainleague.com
Blog: www.sinapseblog.com

2. Intellectual Property???
Kinds- Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Industrial Designs, IC and layout designs, Trade secrets, Plant varieties, Traditional knowledge, Geographical Indications
IP Fundamentals
3. Is domain name an IP?
Domain name X Trademark
Domain names
4. Trademark infringement and passing off
Cyber squatting- domain hijacking
Reverse domain hijacking
IP issues around domain names
5. Domain name Registrant
Agency providing for domain name registrations
Owner/registrant of Trademark
Who's responsible?
6. Cease and Desist notice
Suit for infringement and passing off
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
.IN Dispute Resolution Policy (INDRP- NIXI)
Legal remedies
7. WWF case (2000)
Yahoo Inc. v. AkashArora (1999)
Zee Telefilms Ltd. v. Zee, Kathmandu and others (2006
Famous First Cases
8. Registration
Trademark notice
Documentation of promotional measures
Work closely with IP Attorneys for risk assessments
Trademark search, domain name search
Do not use infringing marks, domain names
Do not use confusingly similar representations
Dos and Don'ts
9. Online interaction of Individuals, exchange of user generated contents and information
Examples- social networking, blogging, microblogging, multimedia content exchange etc.
Social Media
10. Patents- Applications, software etc.
Copyrights- software, literary contents, pictures and photographs etc.
Trademarks- trade names, sound marks, logo etc.
Social media and IP Protection
11. Trademark- infringement, dilution, defamation
Copyright infringement
Patent Disclosure
Trade Secret Disclosure
IP issues around Social Media
12. Infringement- classic cases
Dilution- indiscriminate usage
Defamation- publishing untrue defamatory statements malafidely or negligently, causing damage
Trademarks
13. Sharing User Generated Content
Sharing third party content-that in the public domain- copyright expired, non-copyrightable materials- facts, stats etc.
Attributing does not always absolve liability
Copyrights Infringement
14. Any publication before application for Patent- Prior Art
Disclosure of Concepts, diagrames etc may be detrimental
trade Secrets- once lost, lost forever
Patent and Trade secrets disclosure
15. Protect your IP
Be aware of terms of copyright and license agreements
Place appropriate IP notices
Have Stringent IP Policy in place
Engage with Social media
Never use third party IP without permission
Social Media Dos and Don'ts
16. Free and Open Online IP Courses
http://www.onlineipcourses.com/
Learn IP
17. Thank you
SandeepHegde M.
sandeep@brainleague.com