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Old 04-04-2014, 06:16 AM  
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Originally Posted by dgraves View Post
I went through a similar situation with Hustler and after speaking with several trade mark lawyers, I was advised to change the site name and move on unless I had $400K to waste. Kind of ironic coming from a company who produces all those stupid "This ain"t" parodies.

The point is, it can be a very expensive gamble to fight a trade mark case.
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boy, it's a good thing you're not a lawyer...you'd be broke!
It looks like I was right after all. Do you know that Directech, Inc. dba DogFart also has a registered trademark (#3492496) for Gloryhole?

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IC 041. US 100 101 107. G & S: Entertainment services, namely, providing a web site featuring adult entertainment; providing information in the field of adult entertainment via a global computer network. FIRST USE: 20030507. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20030507
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