Defamation and Insults as Criminal Acts Against Trademarks

DOI

10.2991/aebmr.k.200513.077How to use a DOI?

Keywords

trademarks, defamation, intellectual property

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine whether criminal acts of defamation and insults categorized as crimes against trademarks and to find out the legal protection for trademark owners from defamation and insults. This research method use normative juridical as this method examines the concepts, principles of norms and regulations related to the object of research. The results of this study are that criminal acts of defamation and insults cannot be imposed on trademarks because its a legal objects and not legal subjects, but trademark owners who feel disadvantaged can ask for compensation by filing a lawsuit using articles of acts against the law as a form of legal protection.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Brandon A Malvin
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/20
TI  - Defamation and Insults as Criminal Acts Against Trademarks
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Law, Economics and Health (ICLEH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 385
EP  - 387
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.200513.077
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.200513.077
ID  - Malvin2020
ER  -