I was surprised one of my ads was not approved because of a trademark infringement the other day. Due to trademark reasons, we do not allow advertisers to use 'Jungle' in their Google Adwords ads. This is pretty funny but at the same time it's pretty damn scary. how can you trademark jungle? Maybe it's related to amazon? Anyone else care to share a bizarre trademark term they have found?
I seem to remember buying some computer supplies off a UK company Jungle.com once maybe it has something to do with that. I experienced the same problem with the word "Tiger", I assume the beer. Adwords editor told me it was trademarked in the UK and my ads would not run (no problems in the US or Canada though). There is a system to request usage of a trademarked term and as my use of the word tiger was to do with the animal and not a commercial product of any sort I thought it would be worth a go. Adwords editor came up with some instructions on how to do this which I totally failed to understand or complete properly but my ads started running immediately when I re-posted so I didn't investigate any further.
That's an interesting one. A search on the USPTO shows this: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfiel...h&a_search=Submit+Query&a_search=Submit+Query I wonder who restricted it?
They shouldn't be automatically blocking any keywords where the trademark is marked as 2(f), meaning that it has possible generic usage. At least they refuse to do that for some trademarks I've worked with (on the trademark owner's site)