For over a month now, one of our competitors has advertising on Google search results using our company name in the ad text/title.
That is, if you search for OUR COMPANY, the first result is literally:
Ad ยท https://competitor.example.com/
OUR COMPANY - title copied from our company website
$Competitor is blah blah blah
The ads are clearly deceptive and meant to misdirect people searching for our service.We filed a Trademark complaint with ads-trademarks-support@google.com and today we received this response:
We completed our investigation regarding OUR COMPANY in ads using the
following display URL(s) that you identified in your complaint:
competitor.example.com. Ads from the(se) URLs using the(se) trademark(s)
in ad text should not display unless they comply with our Reseller and
informational site policy or target countries and/or regions outside the
scope of your trademark complaint.
From reading the e-mail, it seems like the problem should be resolved, however the offending ads are still being displayed whenever I search for OUR COMPANY. Has anybody else experienced this? What can we do next?