Handling Accusations of Trademark Infringement?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday April 7, 2004 @09:30AM from the fighting-about-words-with-more-words dept.

Dredd2Kad asks: "Recently I've been accused of trademark infringement because of something in the metadata of my website. What are my rights? Should I stand and fight or let it go? Part of me doesn't care, because my website is nothing but a special interest group, the other part of me is mad as hell that someone has come to my place and threatened me. I feel the plaintiff chose to trademark something really generic (HardRadio), and my choice of metadata (hard radio) should be allowed some wiggle room, especially since I'm not a commercial entity like they are. Please read my story and let me know what you think. I know someone out there must have had a similar problem." In addition to seeking professional legal advice, what other steps can one take to handle these problems?

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slashdot by Finuvir · 2004-04-07 09:31 · Score: 4, Funny

Get you page slashdotted -> problem solved

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Re:They're only doing what they have to... by 0x0d0a · 2004-04-07 10:39 · Score: 3, Funny

To hardradio, v. colloq.

1. To claim unrealistic rights under trademark law. Those Microsoft people really hardradio like mad when it comes to Lindows, or I'll bet SCO's pissed that they only claimed patents and copyright infringement, and can't try to hardradio Linus for using the suffix "-nix".

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