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Google ad suspended for the word "Style"

What the heck?

         

rehabguy

12:55 pm on Nov 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Please remove the following trademark from your ad: Style

The word style is used in a sentence as a adjective, as in "Institutional Style Lamps" and Google is telling me that it's a trademarked term.

It's hard enough to manage my campaigns with all of the quality score crap, now they are going to reject my ads for stupid stuff like this. Great.

Did anybody else get these kind of notices overnight? I just got several all of a sudden on a 3 year old campaign.

potentialgeek

3:21 pm on Nov 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Trademarks are often by industry. Can't Google discern which industry?!

"Like copyright law, trademark ownership is location-based, and therefore must be obtained on a country-by-country basis. Trademarks have more ownership flexibility, since multiple trademark owners may claim the right to the same term, so long as each owner operates in a different industry."

p/g

fordo23

6:32 am on Nov 19, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Must be a glitch in the system. I had similar experience last week with a keyword & its ads that had been running along time. And it was very 'what the hell', I contacted my Google Rep who came back to report it was fixed, was some error. Maybe put in a support request if you don't have a rep.