Marty Schwimmer is moderating an INTA roundtable at our office on Friday, February 1st, titled “Social Media and Intellectual Property – The Good, Bad and Ugly.”

Marty Schwimmer is moderating an INTA roundtable at our office on Friday, February 1st, titled “Social Media and Intellectual Property – The Good, Bad and Ugly.” The roundtable should be interesting and useful to anyone concerned about resolving the perils created by unauthorized trademark use on social media. Topics covered include when social network sites constitute “use in commerce,” how social network sites divert users to third party sites, when search engine sales of key words and diversion of internet traffic constitute actionable infringement, threats posed by social media and how to establish and protect marks from those threats, and challenges created by social media vanity names, fan pages and community pages and ways to stop infringement on them.