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Originally Posted by V_RocKs
But since your mark is NOT used for a business I don't think you will get very far...
All John has to do is make a blog called minus one bit of brain.
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1. You see, but it has been used as a business and transactions have taken place. I have sold my sig at least three times that I can recall on here to three separate parties. I have sold links using this domain to at least five parties through the Buy & Sell forum. I bought a blog from a user here.
2. Making a blog called minusonebrain would only further solidify the claims of disparaging, slandering and/or libeling the mark. That would really not be a good idea, but neither was registering the domain to begin with.
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Originally Posted by jetjet
I'm not a lawyer either, but it seems to me that as long as the domain is not actually used, there might be no grounds for a suit.
Parking it might not even be a good idea, but just having it registered and not pointed to any nameservers couldn't really be said to be infringing on any trademark.
Lawsuits are serious though, and the amateur opinions in my post and others should be taken for what they are worth, and only qualified legal opinions should be considered.
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1. It is pointed to name servers, but thats irrelevant anyway.
2. His having it deprives me of its use. Being that I am the one who owns the trademark and not him - and he was never licensed to use the mark (as far as I know), he is not allowed to do that. It doesn't matter if he ever published a single bit of information there.