CONFLICT BETWEEN TRADEMARKS AND DOMAIN NAMES

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Daniel Evangelista Vasconcelos
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Almeida, Juliana Evangelista de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Jurídica Cesumar - Mestrado (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unicesumar.edu.br/index.php/revjuridica/article/view/5113
• topic: Intellectual Property; Industrial property; Trademark; Domain name; Internet.; Propiedad Intelectual; Propiedad Industrial; Marca; Nombre de Dominio; Internet.; Propriedade intelectual; Propriedade industrial; Marca; Nome de domínio; Internet.

Although it is a relatively recent phenomenon, the Internet is a boundary in business activity, and many entrepreneurs use this to pursue the company. On the Internet, the access to sites is done by the Domain Name, which is the reason why this is relevant in market, considering that will identify the activity on the world wide web. In the same way, the trademark, kind of industrial property, identifies the product or service, which is the reason that it deserves protection. The registration of trademark and domain names, moreover of do not follow the same rules, it is done by different organs. Thus, the article has as a research problem the investigation of the existence of the practice of unfair competition and/or parasitic competition when there is a conflict between the use of a domain and the use of an already registered trademark. The objective is to approach the conflict, highlighting the points regarding the matter, analyzing mainly the institutes of the Marks and Domain Names, as well as institutes of unfair and parasitic competition. It will be used the explanatory deductive method through bibliographic research and case analysis.