{"id":3662,"date":"2017-05-19T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawandmore.nl\/?p=3662"},"modified":"2026-02-24T18:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:57:31","slug":"twitter-and-instagram-can-hashtags-be-trademark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highpowerlasertherapy.com\/law\/twitter-and-instagram-can-hashtags-be-trademark\/","title":{"rendered":"Nowadays, the hashtag is not only popular on Twitter and Instagram&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Twitter and Instagram How Hashtags Like #getthanked Are Becoming Trademarks<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Nowadays, the hashtag is not only popular on Twitter and <a href=\"https:\/\/lawandmore.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>: the hashtag is increasingly used to establish a trademark. In 2016, the number of trademarks with a <a href=\"https:\/\/highpowerlasertherapy.com\/law\/\">hashtag<\/a> in front of it increased by 64% worldwide. A good example of this is T-mobile\u2019s trademark \u2018#getthanked\u2019. Still, claiming a hashtag as trademark is not always easy. A hashtag should, for example, directly link to the product or service of the applicant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>19-05-2017 <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"gtx-trans\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -5px; top: 0.194447px;\">\n<div class=\"gtx-trans-icon\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter and Instagram How Hashtags Like #getthanked Are Becoming Trademarks Nowadays, the hashtag is not only popular on Twitter and Instagram: the hashtag is increasingly used to establish a trademark. In 2016, the number of trademarks with a hashtag in front of it increased by 64% worldwide. 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