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Trade Marks, Brand Protection & Related Copyright and Design

Brands That Don't Travel (Language Pitfalls)

Some brands don't travel well because of their unfortunate meaning in English:


Equally, some brands that are innocuous in English don’t travel well in other languages. For example, the following take on a different meaning in German, where mist is the word for “dung” and gift: means “poison”:

As well as trade mark searches to clear new names, we can make language checks to avoid pitfalls like these:



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