| File this under... Seriously Google? Royal is a trademark policy violation? | jamavan | 6/2/12 11:00 AM | According to Google when I sent my latest product feed for merchant center, they disapproved the word "Royal" as a trademark policy violation. Here's the exact description:Custom Baseball Jersey: 1825-15 Full Button Pro-Style Silver and Royal Ther |
| Re: File this under... Seriously Google? Royal is a trademark policy violation? | Lysis | 6/2/12 5:06 PM | Is this adwords? You should ask the adwords people then. |
| Re: File this under... Seriously Google? Royal is a trademark policy violation? | Panda_Effects | 6/2/12 5:20 PM | It is more about Google Merchant Center for Google Products which is soon to be Pay to Play Google Shopping BUT it could be very relevant to crawling, indexing and ranking as if Google is penalizing for such a use of a common word how many other word |
| Re: File this under... Seriously Google? Royal is a trademark policy violation? | Celebird | 6/2/12 8:47 PM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: File this under... Seriously Google? Royal is a trademark policy violation? | Celebird | 6/2/12 9:50 PM | changing the title and description may help. however, trademark violations are usually related to adwords product-ads not product-search -- which are [currently] separate feed destinations. a violation message may simply be a flag for a person at g |
| Re: File this under... Seriously Google? Royal is a trademark policy violation? | jamavan | 6/6/12 10:30 PM | I guess my concern here is that if I change the description of an item, in this case the color which is actually "royal" blue, then I'm changing the search results. And isn't the idea of providing relevant search results ultimately Google's end goal? |
| Re: File this under... Seriously Google? Royal is a trademark policy violation? | Celebird | 6/7/12 9:31 AM | google to inspect and not necessarily an actual violation -- if google inspects the issue and removes the violation status then nothing need be done to the feed. otherwise, trademark policies are mainly set by google-adwords with information from th |
| Re: File this under... Seriously Google? Royal is a trademark policy violation? | jamavan | 6/13/12 10:39 AM | How do I let Google know that this is a ridiculous violation of any trademark law oversight. Seriously, I can't use the a widely known word to describe a product because somebody apparently owns it? |
| Re: File this under... Seriously Google? Royal is a trademark policy violation? | Celebird | 6/13/12 2:58 PM | if the marked error is not actually a trademark violation, then google may be contacted directly so someone can investigate the issue and take action if needed -- http://support.google.com/merchants/bin/request.py?contact_type=disapproved otherwise, |
| Re: File this under... Seriously Google? Royal is a trademark policy violation? | jamavan | 6/19/12 7:19 AM | ....But wait, there's more - now in a new product feed I'm getting trademark violations for the sizes of our products, AL, A3, A4. |
| Re: File this under... Seriously Google? Royal is a trademark policy violation? | Celebird | 6/19/12 9:31 AM | all those words have entries within the u.s. trademark office. but only someone at google can investigate and take the appropriate action to resolve the errors with respect to a specific feed and account. google may be contacted to see if the marke |
| Re: File this under... Seriously Google? Royal is a trademark policy violation? | MC9000 | 6/20/12 1:07 PM | Same here with words like "Champion". funny, I thought a trademark was a "mark" - a graphic. Our TM attorneys wouldn't let us trademark any word, since, they said, they are NOT considered trademark-able. The keyword being "MARK". Common words are ne |
| Re: File this under... Seriously Google? Royal is a trademark policy violation? | Celebird | 6/20/12 2:10 PM | "A trademark is a word, phrase, symbol or design, or a combination thereof, that identifies and distinguishes the source of the goods of one party from those of others." http://www.uspto.gov/faq/trademarks.jsp#_Toc275426672 http://en.wikipedia.org/w |
| Re: File this under... Seriously Google? Royal is a trademark policy violation? | jamavan | 6/21/12 1:25 PM | On my latest feed for my other store I got hit with trademark violations on the words Royal, Cascade, AL, A2, A3, A4. These are part of the sku I've used to name the sizes of our garments - Adult Large, Adult 2X-Large, etc. To reply to the quote, |
| Re: File this under... Seriously Google? Royal is a trademark policy violation? | Celebird | 6/21/12 2:11 PM | the automated status flag simply holds an item from being listed until a person can inspect and evaluate the issue. to have a human-being actually look at the use, context, and relevancy with respect to particular items, google may be contacted dire |