Copyright & Trademark Claims

Choose the right notice

You can send LARUS three kinds of notice.

1. Trademark claim

   For holders of a valid registered trademark or service mark. Everything your claim must include is set out below.

2. Copyright complaint

   Send your copyright complaint to info@larus.net.

3. Counter notification

   Responding to an infringement complaint? Send your counter notification to info@larus.net.

Who can make a trademark claim

To make a trademark claim, you must hold a valid trademark or service mark registered with the Hong Kong, China trademark office or, for a foreign mark, with the appropriate intellectual-property organisation in your country. State registrations are not considered valid for this purpose.

What to include

To be effective, your notification of a claimed trademark violation must include the following information.

1. The trademark, service mark, trade dress, name or other indication of origin claimed to be infringed, including its registration number.
2. The jurisdiction or geographical area to which the mark applies.
3. The name, postal address and telephone number of the owner of the identified mark.
4. The goods and/or services covered by or offered under the identified mark.
5. The date the identified mark was first used.
6. The date the identified mark was first used in interstate commerce.
7. A description of how you believe the mark is being infringed.
8. Sufficient evidence that the owner of the website claimed to be infringing is a LARUS customer.
9. The precise location of the infringing mark, including relevant electronic addresses or other location details.

Good-faith certification

Also include a good-faith certification, signed under penalty of perjury, stating the following.

• The content of the identified website infringes the rights of another party.
• The name of that party.
• The mark that is being infringed.
• The use of the identified website content claimed to be infringing is not defensible.

What happens next

Once we receive the information listed above for your trademark claim, we will open an investigation.

While investigating, LARUS may take the temporary actions below at its sole discretion and without any legal obligation to do so.

• Temporarily remove the challenged material from LARUS.
• Notify the posting party that its domain name or names will be locked down.
• Redirect the posting party's DNS.
• Forward your written notification to the posting party.
• If the material is stored only on a LARUS server, temporarily remove it or deny access to it.