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Founded in 1874 as a firm of patent and trade mark agents, and becoming a firm of attorneys in 1976, D M Kisch has a long and distinguished history in intellectual property law. As one of the leading intellectual property law firms in South Africa, D M Kisch has expanded to now offer clients a full range of commercial services, however much of our practice revolves around the filing and prosecution of trade mark, patent and design applications in South Africa, Africa and the rest of the world. Whilst holding to a proud tradition established over its more than 130 year history, the firm prides itself on providing innovative solutions and combines specialised capabilities and expertise to provide a comprehensive range of legal services for the benefit of our clients.
YOUR TRADE MARK AND FACEBOOK
Facebook is a concept that has become fairly well known to the people that use the site - and to the businesses that seek to stop employees from using it during work hours! To those that are not that familiar with it, it is a free-to-use social networking website that people use to connect with people and to share photographs, thoughts, conversations with etc.
Facebook Inc, the company behind the concept and the operators of the website, are now introducing the possibility for it's users to create and register their own usernames. This will change the link to their personal profile which will now incorporate that username, rather than a string of numbers and digits. For example, if we created a profile on Facebook for DM Kisch Inc, the new link or URL would be www.facebook.com/dmkisch. We regard our company name and the DM Kisch trademark as an important asset of the firm, and would obviously not want anybody else to register a Facebook username that incorporates it. Facebook Inc, mindful of these concerns of trade mark owners, is accordingly allowing trade mark owners to protect their trade mark against this by submitting information about the trade mark to Facebook.
If you would like to protect your trade mark from misappropriation by unauthorized Facebook users, simply fill in the form at http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=username_rights or get in touch with your usual DM kisch contact.
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