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Anyone want to make use of their "Expert Witness" services? http://rentamark.com/Expert_Witness/expert_witness .html/

RENTAMARK.COM offers it expert services to any third party who may be engaged in trademark litigation and needs a trademark expert to testify to damages, likelihood of confusion and/or to prepare a survey.

Oh how I want someone who is being litigated to try to use their service!

Looks like he has also trademarked 'Free Speech'

• Sentra
• Intruder
• Stradivarius
• Turbojet
• Checkmate
• Airframe Fable
• Torrent
• Aerospace
• Star Light
• Terminator
• Ambush

BTW: the Famous Marks page looks like real crap. Some images don't load and the ones that do look like a four-year-old got loose with a paintbox

Aren't some of these from other copyrighted works?

He also offers to license to you such phrases as: Adult Entertainment,Big Screen,Blue Collar, and Back Country.

Looking at his word list at http://rentamark.com/Wordmarks/wordmarks.html, he appearantly owns .com, cyberspace, and wow.

Ironically, he skipped the word that I think he DOES deserve a copyright on: Smacktard.

http://www.rentamark.com/sample/psb1.htm

He has about 100 common phrases done up as very cheap logos. I'm wondering if he's going to use these as the basis for lawsuits eventually.

There's gotta be a way to retaliate against this guy.

And this:
http://www.rentamark.com/sample/skinnydip.htm

Also, I find this one quite ammusing.
http://www.rentamark.com/sample/frespch.htm

And this:
http://www.rentamark.com/sample/skinnydip.htm

Also, I find this one quite ammusing.
http://www.rentamark.com/sample/frespch.htm

One of the heavier pages on his site. (Seems to be getting pretty slow already.)

He also owns some other trademarks like ( http://www.rentamark.com/ ):
Annihilator, Ambush, Aerospace, Stradivarius, Intruder, Airframe, Torrent, Book Review, Free Speech...

http://rentamark.com/

And remember to hold down the "Shift" key when you hit "refresh"

And isn't he infringing on copyright by using logos like this?

http://www.rentamark.com/sample/thegrtescape.htm

Heh. I just called the phone number (773-283-3880) posted prominently throughout the website of this guy's "agency". Not surprisingly, his voice mailbox is full :-)

That's quite a Chicago accent he's got there though...

From Rentamark.com's Cease & Desist Section:

There are no well-known trademarks, service marks, trade names and/or domain names that have not already been adopted by some other company first; as in the case at bar. In the same manner that there is not any real property in the 21st Century that can be acquired for free or homesteaded. There is no free well-known intellectual property left in the 21st Century. No free rides!

I don't even know where to begin with this guy...

Take a look at his catalog of fabulous tradmarks right here. Some high quality stuff here, folks!

He claims to own the rights to words such as treehouse and even words such as walk and smile! and claims to own the rights to many phrases including "Thank You" Heres a list of words he claims to own: http://rentamark.com/Wordmarks/wordmarks.html And a list of phrases: http://rentamark.com/e-marks/A-D/a-d.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/E-I/e-i.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/J-O/j-o.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/P-S/p-s.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/T-Z/t-z.html Quite a few movie titles are included. For example: Terminator and Sahara ".com" is even claimed to be trademarked. Its like they picked a list ofwords randomly from a dictionary.

He claims to own the rights to words such as treehouse and even words such as walk and smile! and claims to own the rights to many phrases including "Thank You" Heres a list of words he claims to own: http://rentamark.com/Wordmarks/wordmarks.html And a list of phrases: http://rentamark.com/e-marks/A-D/a-d.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/E-I/e-i.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/J-O/j-o.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/P-S/p-s.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/T-Z/t-z.html Quite a few movie titles are included. For example: Terminator and Sahara ".com" is even claimed to be trademarked. Its like they picked a list ofwords randomly from a dictionary.

He claims to own the rights to words such as treehouse and even words such as walk and smile! and claims to own the rights to many phrases including "Thank You" Heres a list of words he claims to own: http://rentamark.com/Wordmarks/wordmarks.html And a list of phrases: http://rentamark.com/e-marks/A-D/a-d.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/E-I/e-i.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/J-O/j-o.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/P-S/p-s.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/T-Z/t-z.html Quite a few movie titles are included. For example: Terminator and Sahara ".com" is even claimed to be trademarked. Its like they picked a list ofwords randomly from a dictionary.

He claims to own the rights to words such as treehouse and even words such as walk and smile! and claims to own the rights to many phrases including "Thank You" Heres a list of words he claims to own: http://rentamark.com/Wordmarks/wordmarks.html And a list of phrases: http://rentamark.com/e-marks/A-D/a-d.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/E-I/e-i.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/J-O/j-o.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/P-S/p-s.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/T-Z/t-z.html Quite a few movie titles are included. For example: Terminator and Sahara ".com" is even claimed to be trademarked. Its like they picked a list ofwords randomly from a dictionary.

He claims to own the rights to words such as treehouse and even words such as walk and smile! and claims to own the rights to many phrases including "Thank You" Heres a list of words he claims to own: http://rentamark.com/Wordmarks/wordmarks.html And a list of phrases: http://rentamark.com/e-marks/A-D/a-d.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/E-I/e-i.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/J-O/j-o.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/P-S/p-s.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/T-Z/t-z.html Quite a few movie titles are included. For example: Terminator and Sahara ".com" is even claimed to be trademarked. Its like they picked a list ofwords randomly from a dictionary.

He claims to own the rights to words such as treehouse and even words such as walk and smile! and claims to own the rights to many phrases including "Thank You" Heres a list of words he claims to own: http://rentamark.com/Wordmarks/wordmarks.html And a list of phrases: http://rentamark.com/e-marks/A-D/a-d.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/E-I/e-i.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/J-O/j-o.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/P-S/p-s.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/T-Z/t-z.html Quite a few movie titles are included. For example: Terminator and Sahara ".com" is even claimed to be trademarked. Its like they picked a list ofwords randomly from a dictionary.

The story should contain another link to the guy's site so we could slashdot the asshole. http://www.rentamark.com/

we have our own way to beat the snot outa this scum-bag. Just click here to drive his server costs threw the roof.