## About Stigma Search

**Stigma Search's mission is to protect a brand's intellectual property online from all copyright and trademark violations.**

Founded in 2014 by **[Kevin Hoda](/content/about/management/index.html)**, Stigma Search provides a service called Online Brand Protection. Through this service a brand owner will no longer have to deal with intellectual property infringement online. Our software and enforcement measures will protect a brand from listings that violate a their copyrights and trademarks, it will remove search engine results that lead to sites hosting pirated content, and social media sites that host and promote fake goods.

We offer [**free**](/content/free/index.html) Online Brand Protection to all non-profits regardless of size.

**Contact**

For media, inquires, or speaking requests, please email [**contact@stigmasearch.com**](mailto:contact@stigmasearch.com)

We also maintain a [**blog**](https://blog.stigmasearch.com/), which covers news and research on everything counterfeit, trademark, copyright, patent and intellectual property related.