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Anyone know if British trademarks will be valid in the EU post-Brexit? If not, this will open up quite a big risk for domain hijackings.
by ahje 8y ago
Anyone know if British trademarks will be valid in the EU post-Brexit? If not, this will open up quite a big risk for domain hijackings.
- zaarn 8y agoAn EU trademark would not be valid in the UK and companies would have to apply separately for an UK trademark. The way it works usually (IIRC) is that while the EU trademark is valid in the entire EU, it isn't an actual trademark in each country and in case the EU trademark is invalidated you have to apply for a trademark in each country and each country can challenge your trademark by their laws. I would then assume that with brexit, since UK is no longer part of the EU, the EU trademark isn't revoked but seizes to be valid.
- ahje 8y agoIn other words, easy pickings for anyone who wants to get hold of email domains with good domain rep in order to use them for spamming.
- alias_neo 8y agoIt's quite worrying for security; imagine if some API used by some slightly older code uses an .eu, now someone can go but that domain, issue a trusted certificate and hijack the system using it. Of course the risk is no greater than usual but the same could apply for fraudulent sites popping up.