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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Client has a registered
trademark for restaurant services. The mark is WORD + OTHER
WORD.</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Someone else put up
social pages for another restaurant (which happens to be opening
one county over). Same cuisine. Name is WORD & OTHER WORD.
Essentially identical.<br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">As I've done many times
before, I filled out the trademark takedown forms for Yelp,
Instagram, and Facebook. I thought this would be a no-brainer.
To my surprise, all 3 sites quickly responded and refused to
take down the offending pages. IG said, for example, "Based on
the information you provided, it is not clear to us that the
content you’ve reported infringes your trademark rights, and we
are unable to act on your report at this time."</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Has anyone noticed that
these sites becoming less likely to comply with trademark
takedown notices lately? Is there "one special trick the social
media sites don't want you to know" that I should know about to
get these pages taken down?<br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Best,<br>
David<br>
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