August 25, 2010 | Barry Wise | Announcements, Brand and Trademark Protection, KnowEm News
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KnowEm, the company working to help brands manage their identity across the social web, announced the public launch of a new Enterprise Dashboard designed to help brands protect their trademarks and intellectual property in the ever-changing social media landscape.
August 24, 2010 | Robert Siciliano | Identity Theft, Online Reputation Management
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InformationWeek reports SB 1411, which has been approved by the California Senate and the Assembly and now awaits the signature of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, makes it a misdemeanor “to knowingly and without consent credibly impersonate another person through or on an Internet Web site or by other electronic means with the intent to harm, intimidate, threaten or defraud another person.”
August 17, 2010 | Michael Streko | Announcements, KnowEm News
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Today we are happy to announce that after a great many requests we have integrated a domain name search with our social media network username search. This was a feature that we had talked about since launch and we are happy to finally be able to release it.
July 14, 2010 | Kelly Merkel | Brand and Trademark Protection, Intellectual Property
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The latest European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling in a dispute about Google’s AdWords service and trademarks is instructive for multinational brand owners and their customers. In the matter of Portakabin Ltd., Portakabin BV v. Primakabin BV, the ECJ again addressed the liability of third parties who choose keywords that are identical or similar to a proprietor’s registered trademarks.
July 7, 2010 | Barry Wise | Announcements, KnowEm News
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We’re happy to announce that as of today KnowEm will now be available to the German-speaking market thanks to our new partnership with Yiid.com. We have worked with Marco Ripanti of Yiid (Your Internet Identity) to create a German language version of our social media account creation service at yiid.knowem.com. Yiid has long been recognized [...]
May 25, 2010 | Robert Siciliano | Identity Theft, Intellectual Property, Online Reputation Management, Social Media
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What BP has done isn’t funny. The Wall Street Journal reports a Twitter user with an account dubbed BPGlobalPR is posting satirical entries about the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — and already has more than twice as many followers as BP America’s actual account. I’m sure BP doesn’t think its “satirical” or funny.
May 24, 2010 | Barry Wise | Announcements, KnowEm News
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KnowEm is proud to sponsor a tweetup tomorrow with Rob Holmes (from The KnockOff Report) and Nils Montan (of IP Ally) at the International Trademark Association’s 132nd Annual Meeting. The tweetup will be from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at McCormick & Schmick’s in Boston (1 Faneuil Hall Market Pl, North Market Building). KnowEm is sponsoring the tweetup, so drinks and appetizers are on us!
April 23, 2010 | Barry Wise | Identity Theft, Social Media
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Identity Theft isn’t just something that impacts your bank account or credit card. Your brand or trademark can be hijacked in social media and on the web as well, and we’ve seen it thousands of times here at KnowEm. Most recently, according to PCWorld, a hacker named Kirllos has offered up for sale 1.5 million Facebook user accounts.
April 22, 2010 | Rob Holmes | Intellectual Property, Social Media
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In the Intellectual Property world, few things matter as much as a name. Since the advent of the business name and the trademarked word, nothing has been used to identify quality and individuality more than a unique name. A unique name, as obvious as it sounds, is how people know to buy your product instead of something else.
April 20, 2010 | Michael Streko | Announcements, KnowEm News
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Today marks the one year anniversary of KnowEm’s public launch and we could not be any happier with how much success we’ve enjoyed during our first year in business. We also thought it might be fun to celebrate our birthday by relaunching the original social media name checking service which started it all, CheckUserNames.com.
