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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">A data point for the group: Amazon's recently clarified guidelines for its brand protection program require a registered text-only mark; stylized or design + word marks don't qualify.
This reinforces the point that a prophylactic measure online, which deals with text-based searches, should focus on text in the marks selected for extra protection.
<div>http://www.cll.com/newsroom-news-172324<br>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px">Frank Stanton Professor of First Amendment Law, Harvard Law School<br>
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