Can I Use Someone Else's Trademarked Brand in My Website URL?

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Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Today's question comes from Jake, who is interested in starting a niche site aimed at iPhone users. Is it okay to use the term "iPhone" in his website URL? Jake's website is http://www.goodnightjakeandtraci.com/. I have experience with this issue from my niche site, Green Exam Academy (http://www.greenexamacademy.com/). Jake mentions my book, Will It Fly? (http://willitflybook.com). Do you have a question about intellectual property? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:01.0	AskPath.com.
0:09.0	What's up, everybody?
0:11.8	Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 714 of Ask Pat.
0:15.4	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:17.0	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your all-night business questions five days a week.
0:21.0	All right.
0:21.2	Now, here's today's question from Jake.
0:23.8	Hey, Pat, this is Jake.
0:25.5	Goodnight.
0:27.0	I just recently started listening to your show and I'm a bit overwhelmed with all the great information on there.
0:36.1	I'm just getting started.
0:38.2	I started a blog with my wife at goodnight, Jake, and Tracy.com.
0:42.9	And we just started blogging, just writing about Christian living type stuff.
0:50.1	But I have an idea for a website that I'm that I'm thinking about creating and I know what
0:55.8	you're going to say read will it fly and I am on that but I just had a quick question is it a bad
1:04.5	idea to create a website with someone else's product name in your URL. For instance, iPhone. So if I want to do a website,
1:18.7	kind of a niche site about a certain aspect of iPhone, is it a bad idea to use iPhone in my
1:26.6	URL? And is it even legal, I guess, is my question,
1:33.1	because I feel like it really explains what I want to do on my site and what kind of content
1:40.6	I want to create. And I wanted to drill down into specifically iPhone users.
1:46.9	Although most of the information will probably be applicable to all smartphone users,
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