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  • rawkuspaul
    Registered User
    • Nov 2003
    • 3
    #1

    Got a threat for "Title" Tag Copyright Violation

    I run a non adult website and today this fucker sends me this email threatening me:

    "This is to inform you that your title description on your home page is in
    violation of the trademark of our name. Our website is the "Hgh Human
    Growth Hormone Guide", this is our company trademark. Please remove the
    title description from your home page and all your pages. Thank you. This
    is a courtesy notice, which we hope you respond to. If we don't hear from
    you in the next ten days we will be bringing our lawyer into this, and will
    be contacting all appropriate government agencies regarding this
    infringement, and will also be reporting this trademark infringement to the
    various search engines. Thanks for cooperation. I know we are
    competitors, but we wish you luck with your Hgh business, this isn't about
    competition or being competitors, it is about the unlawful use of our name
    on your home page title. thanks again for your cooperation, please let me
    know when you have changed your home page title to take out the word Guide.


    Doug Gordon
    Sales Manager
    http://www.hgh-human-growth-hormone-guide.com "

    Now, how the fuck can someone sue me over just a title tag on my domain, can they actually do this? Those of you guys who are lawyers, any input appreciated, I haven't responded to his email and am not sure what to say.

    -paul
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    • jigg
      Confirmed User
      • Feb 2002
      • 2527
      #2
      why not just ask a competent lawyer
      anything else here would just be someone's opinion
      ......
      eight,eight,two,eight,eight,four,two
      ......

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        • Jon
          Confirmed User
          • Jun 2002
          • 2578
          #3
          They are bluffing..

          Do what Homer Simpson would do... Ignore them!
          WickedFire.com - Stay here. We don't need more of you. Not unless you have money, then, fine...

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            • Baal
              Confirmed User
              • Jan 2002
              • 696
              #4
              I think that whoever is taller should win.

              I mean, you're both selling something promoting human growth, so let the best results win!

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                • SpaceAce
                  Confirmed User
                  • Jul 2002
                  • 6493
                  #5
                  They will be going to their lawyers? Why wasn't it their lawyers who contacted you in the first place? Smells like they don't even have lawyers, to me.

                  SpaceAce

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                    • sumphatpimp
                      Confirmed User
                      • Aug 2002
                      • 5235
                      #6
                      Human Growth Hormone

                      Years ago I would tell my girlfriends that seaman contained human growth hormone and if they would swallow it would give them big boobies.

                      Not all but some actually believed it.

                      LOL

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                        • Gemini
                          Confirmed User
                          • Jan 2001
                          • 7183
                          #7
                          Ask to see their trademark paperwork. Are you in the same country as they are? (If not, then they have to have an International Trademark)

                          Thats one important sales manager too! Since when do they handle the legals for a company?! lol

                          But if you do have THEIR info.... you didn't leave your URL for anyone to look at either... So no one here can verify them

                          And call a lawyer as well. The only thing they really can do is have their own lawyer step in now. The last I knew government agencies don't enforce P/T rights... only courts do. So an attorney is your best bet all the way around.
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                            • icedemon
                              Confirmed User
                              • Jun 2003
                              • 1022
                              #8
                              I would ask for the proof that they own the trademark to "Hgh Human Growth Hormone Guide". If they actually own the trademark, you can either wait and see if they have enough money or willing to take you to court, or you can just take it down from your website.

                              I had Sega contact me awhile back over a domain name that is similar to something they have trademarked. I sent my letter to them about it and haven't heard back from them. It's been so long now, they more than likely dropped it and let me keep the domain name (at least that's what I'm gonna assume, unless I get a document to show up at court).
                              Clips4Sale.com

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                                • kevinale
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Dec 2002
                                  • 2115
                                  #9
                                  go here http://www.uspto.gov/

                                  go do a search on trademarks type in HGH.. there are 41 trademarks registered.. none with that name..

                                  not sure if this is a sessioned link, but here it is with the results :

                                  http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield...h=Submit+Query
                                  1monkey0cup.com

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