Marksmen, Inc.
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| Type: | Privately held |
| Industry: | Intellectual Property |
| Founded: | 1998 |
| Founder(s): | Ken Taylor Jason Tirado & Mark Doerr |
| Headquarters: | Los Angeles, CA Research Triangle Park, North Carolina |
| Country: | USA |
| Website: | Marksmen.com |
| Blog: | Namesmash |
| LinkedIn: | Marksmen |
| Key People | |
| Ken Taylor, President & Chairman Keith Lim, COO | |
Marksmen is an Intellectual Property Protection Services company based in California. The company also negotiates for the purchase or sale of IP rights internationally and monitors the Internet for both web content and domain name registrations. Marksmen was founded by Ken Taylor, Jason Tirado and Mark Doerr in 1998 and has conducted more than 55,000 intellectual property related cases worldwide. The company maintains offices in Los Angeles, California and in North Carolina.[1]
Ken Taylor, the company's President and CEO, is a member of the Intellectual Property Constituency within ICANN, the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition, and the Triangle Intellectual Property Association.[2]
Mission
The company aims to deliver a discreet, confidential and relentless pursuit of quality information to its clients worldwide and ensure that the communication is carried out in a responsive, friendly and intelligent manner, corroborate and stand behind every information provided and treat every employee fairly and give them the opportunity to advance as the company flourish and most importantly the company will maintain a sense of humor.[3]
Services
Marksmen provide the following services to its clients:[4]
- Intellectual Property Investigations
- Trademark Protection
- Patent Litigation Support
- Intellectual Property Acquisitions
- Online Brand Protection
- Anti-Counterfeiting
eBeagle
The company uses eBeagle in monitoring the internet to ensure a clients brand is protected by continuously monitoring the internet for for IP violations trademark diversion, copyright infringement and brand abuse in text, logos, multimedia and Chinese characters as well ad monitoring domain name registrations against individuals who uses tricks in misusing a brand in any URL worldwide. eBeagle is capable in searching and monitoring domain names, brands and trademarks within 180 countries and 240 jurisdictional domain registries.[5]
Namesmash
Ken Taylor is the editor of Namesmash, a forum which provides accurate, unbiased and current information about the domain business. The website is powered by Marksmen.[6]