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Yes we did. We contacted Google and asked them to remove our competitor ads. We had to prove that we own the copyright for the name of our company in all the co
by knes 14y ago
Yes we did. We contacted Google and asked them to remove our competitor ads. We had to prove that we own the copyright for the name of our company in all the countries that the ads where running. After that, they banned / removed all the ads. It was a long & slow process though.
- UnoriginalGuy 14y agoYou cannot copyright a name. I assume you mean trademark; and even then unless the ad network has rules against it there is nothing in law that specifically forbids using a competitor's name in this way. Trademark is mostly concerned with "pretending to be someone you're not." So if you pretend to be Nike and sell fake shoes, then it is a powerful set of laws, but if someone writes a critical review of a Nike's tennis shoes then they cannot demand it be pulled down. As I said Google/Bing might have specific rules against this kind of thing but you really don't have the law on your side. They're allowed to be critical of you as long as they don't misrepresent themselves as being you.