I am in the process of registering my company's name with the trademark office. I am a small company. Also, being in the photo industry, I take copyright very seriously. Every day I sit and wonder, "How do companies get away with violating LV's trademark and copyright?"
Louis Vuitton is BIG. Yet hundreds of sites violate their registered trademark. There are websites using their name, which is possibly the worst offense, since these sites mostly sell fakes - and can confuse new or uneducated buyers. But also, buy making fakes and using their logo and their name, it is even a larger violation. And sometimes they even use photos from LV's website - copyright violation.
So how can they get away with this? It is a disgrace. I see how it is hard to catch street vendors who relocate all the time, but there are so many full fledged websites that come up when you do a Google Search for Louis Vuitton. It is horrible - It saddens me. If they cannot stop this, what good is getting a trademark registered anyway. I wish LV would sue all these websites.
Thanks for listening to my rant on this.
Jodi
Louis Vuitton is BIG. Yet hundreds of sites violate their registered trademark. There are websites using their name, which is possibly the worst offense, since these sites mostly sell fakes - and can confuse new or uneducated buyers. But also, buy making fakes and using their logo and their name, it is even a larger violation. And sometimes they even use photos from LV's website - copyright violation.
So how can they get away with this? It is a disgrace. I see how it is hard to catch street vendors who relocate all the time, but there are so many full fledged websites that come up when you do a Google Search for Louis Vuitton. It is horrible - It saddens me. If they cannot stop this, what good is getting a trademark registered anyway. I wish LV would sue all these websites.
Thanks for listening to my rant on this.
Jodi