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Guarding your brand exceeds beyond simply making sure that your stock and services are protected. The internet has formulated an easy way for online scammers to exploit your brand. Therefore, continue reading to discover further how you can protect your business from these scammers.

How to protect your brand?

Understanding how to manage intellectual property protection is crucial knowledge for every brand. Counterfeiters are tenacious when targeting businesses, they believe they can benefit from and utilize any tactic at their end to stay in the game.

There are various approaches that brands can execute to help them in the battle against infringers, both offline and in the online business.

File your IP: There is very little practical legal aid for brands that experience brand abusers without formally filing intellectual property. In particular, without trademarks legally registered, impostors would be loose to rip off trademarks and brand signatures. Registering intellectual property needs to be the first step for creating online brand protection and intellectual property protection solutions.

Sign NDAs with associates and partners: This is particularly valuable for brands with patent-protected plans and methods. Conforming to operate with other businesses and companies without security for classified data can put a label at tremendous peril.

Combat criminal websites:  Criminal websites are sites set up for ill-disposed or illegal schemes. They appear in many varieties, all of which are conceivably vitiating to brands. You can combat this by designating relevant domain handles to your brand and eliminating dangerous sites.

Have an influential social media presence: As social media keeps evolving as an essential platform for pretenders, brands need to secure a strong appearance to authenticate themselves as genuine. Utilizing on-site reporting tools and using clandestine accounts is crucial to excluding counterfeit dealers on social media.

Train your buyers: Consumer education can greatly impact brand education and anti-counterfeiting in a couple of ways. Assisting buyers in recognizing the variations among legitimate and counterfeit products will better equip them to avoid getting tricked. Teaching people the overall hazards of counterfeiting will also make them less likely to seek out knockoff merchandise.

Summary:

To summarize the ultimate brand protection:

Firstly, make certain you own all of your intellectual property. Any and every one that you have partnered up in business must sign an NDA.

Before anything, make it a habit to do thorough research before promoting a company or merchandise name. You shouldn’t use a business name previously registered or still in use. Registering your unique name will help you to avoid confusion, bad credit, or constitutional problems.

Record and register for copyright protections on your labels and logos. This will help you to take legal action against scammers and illegal sellers.

Anything that you create to help your business be it the company’s name, logos, photos, video, social media content, website content, make it a habit to register it as your intellectual property. Be certain you are trademarking your company’s name and label and registering on all of our marketing assets.

And that’s all you require to protect your brand!

 

Kossi Adzo is the editor and author of Startup.info. He is software engineer. Innovation, Businesses and companies are his passion. He filled several patents in IT & Communication technologies. He manages the technical operations at Startup.info.

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