SIMULTANEOUS RESERVATION OF BRAND IDENTITY

• US 20110066648A1
• Filed: 09/14/2010
• Published: 03/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Raj Abhyanker
• Original Assignee: Raj Abhyanker
• Inventors: Abhyanker, Raj Vasant, Liu, Dongxia
• Application Number:
  US12/881,696
• Publication Number:
  US 20110066648A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/770
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9532 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9536 Search customisation based on social or collaborative filtering

Abstract

Simultaneous reservation of brand identity is disclosed. In one embodiment a method to simultaneous reserve online brand identity includes initiating a simultaneous search responsive to a single criteria, creating a uniform search result of available internet property such as trademark names, domain names, and/or social media names, searching availability of the internet property related to single search criteria, retaining ownership of matching internet property, registering the internet property, presenting opportunity to users to challenge ownership of the internet property. In another embodiment, a method may include abandoned trademarks responsive to a single search criteria are automatically registered and semantic analysis is performed on search results from the single search criteria.

Claims

1. A method to simultaneously reserve online brand identity comprising:

initiating a simultaneous search responsive to a single criteria;

creating a uniform search result of available internet property such as trademark names, domain names, and/or social media names;

searching availability of the internet property related to single search criteria;

retaining ownership of matching internet property;

registering the internet property;

presenting opportunity to users to challenge ownership of the internet property.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein abandoned trademarks responsive to a single search criteria are automatically registered.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein semantic analysis is performed on search results from the single search criteria.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the trademark registrar module analyzes whether one or more of the abandoned trademarks of claim 3 are confusingly similar to one or more marks in the same trademark classification.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the trademark registrar module analyzes whether one or more of the abandoned trademarks of claim 3 are confusingly similar to one or more marks in one or more trademark classifications.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the trademark registrar module searches a common law database to analyze whether one or more of the abandoned trademarks of claim 3 are confusingly similar to one or more common law trademark.

4. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a computer readable storage medium having computer readable instructions stored thereon for execution by the processor, forming the following automated software algorithm modules;

(a) a trademark registrar module to search and analyze XML feeds comprising data of trademark filings for one or more word marks;

(b) a domain registrar module to automatically search available domain names on the internet based on a trademark filing for a word mark;

(c) a social media registrar module to automatically search one or more online social media sites based on a trademark filing for a word mark;

(d) a page module that automatically creates a pre-populated page with the results from the domain name search module and/or social media name search module; and

(e) a register module that automatically reserves an available domain name and/or social media name based on a trademark filing for a word mark.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the trademark registrar module analyzes one or more feeds of XML data containing information of new trademark filings for one or more word marks.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the trademark registrar module searches one or more periodic feeds of XML data and gathers XML data containing information of one or more abandoned trademarks.

10. The system of claim 4, wherein the domain registrar module automatically searches available domain names on the internet based on one or more abandoned trademarks.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the social media registrar module automatically searches available social media names on the internet based on one or more abandoned trademarks.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the page module automatically creates a pre-populated page with the results from the domain name search module.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the page module automatically creates a pre-populated page with the results from the social media name search module.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the one-click register module automatically reserves an available domain name based on one or more abandoned trademarks.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the one-click register module automatically reserves an available social media domain name based on one or more abandoned trademarks.

19. The system of claim 4, wherein the trademark filing module automatically tags the data from one or more feeds of XML data based on office actions related to one or more trademark applications.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the trademark filing module automatically prepares a template response based on office actions related to one or more trademark applications.

16. The system to automatically edit a logo so that it may be trademarked comprising:

a processor; and

a computer readable storage medium having computer readable instructions stored thereon for execution by the processor, forming the following automated software algorithm modules;

(a) a trademark logo module to search and analyze one or more feeds of XML data comprising data of trademark filings for one or more logo marks;

(b) a logo search module to analyze whether a given logo is confusingly similar to one or more logos gathered by the trademark logo module;

(c) a logo edit module to edit a logo so that it may not be confusingly similar to one or more logos from the trademark logo module.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the logo edit module changes the color of a given logo so that it may not be confusingly similar to one or more logos analyzed by the trademark logo module.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the logo edit module changes the resolution of a given logo so that it may not be confusingly similar to one or more logos analyzed by the trademark logo module.

21. A method to determine the availability of social media domains based on a trademark filing comprising:

implementing an automated software algorithm to search and analyze one or more XML feeds containing data of new trademark applications;

searching for available domain names and social media names on the Internet based on trademark filing data gathered from the one or more XML feeds;

creating a pre-populated search page based on the results from the domain name search and/or the social media name search; and

automatically registering an available domain name and/or a social media name with a single click.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein changes to a company'"'"'s stock price as a result of a trademark filing may be reflected in a unique pre-populated page.