Most of these corporate registrations will be for brand protection and will simply sit on a shelf.
It is not just the zeal with which Locog has been enforcing brand protection laws that has caused controversy.
Now, apparently, the site has been purchased by Whois, an internet brand protection agency that counts Activision as a client.
"We have a very good working relationship with the Chinese authorities, " Lucy Nichols, Nokia's global director of intellectual property rights and brand protection, told CNN.
Prosecco, produced in Italy's Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia wine regions, enjoys legal brand protection under EU rules that govern other wines like Champagne and Port.
This year saw the widespread adoption of a tactic for hiding malware delivery sites known as "fast flux, " says Laura Mather, a researcher at the Anti-Phishing Working Group committee and a senior scientist with digital brand protection firm MarkMonitor.
Agari, in other words, is pitching itself not as a spam-filtering company so much as a brand-protection firm.
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Kaspersky Labs is the leading retail brand for malware protection, Yandex is the Russian Google and is one of the top 20 websites in the world, according to Alexa.com.
The trial goes to the heart of the escalating controversy over how much patent protection pricey brand-name drugs should get.
Multinational corporations benefit from protection of their brand reputation as well.
Rogue employees, uninformed employees, network vulnerabilities, malicious apps, and insecure social media management platforms all pose potential threats to the security and protection of a brand on social networks.
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Compared to the past few years, there will simply not be as many big-selling brand-name medicines losing patent protection, which means generic drugmakers cannot simply jumpstart growth by acquiring another generic drugmaker.
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As a whole, branching out beyond prom dresses was a smart move for the brand, which filed for bankruptcy protection more than a year ago and is now owned by Steve Madden.
Its main European business, Opel, and its UK brand Vauxhall, will not be affected by the bankruptcy protection move.
"These 18-year-old kids who join the Army wear Nike because they like the brand, " says Robert Kinney , director of individual protection at the U.S. Army's Natick Soldier Center.
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The fashion industry has historically sought and been granted protection for limited aspects of their products, like trademarks on logos and brand names, which are recognized as their property.
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Mutual and the Obama administration want that protection extended to the design of the drug, since the generic is an exact copy of the brand-name drug that has already been approved by the federal government.
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