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Microsoft Uses Trademark Act Clause to Help with Takedown
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Microsoft's legal team used a clause in the Lanham trademark act to seize counterfeit goods and help with the takedown of CNC servers. The legal argument was that these servers contained spam templates falsely claiming to be from Microsoft and Pfizer, constituting trademark infringement.
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