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here's a quick break down of everything. spoke two 3 lawyers all said i'd have a good chance of keeping the domain, but it comes down to how much i want to spend to keep it.
what i have:
1. i have a legal pending trademark (i can make it official at anytime i want. it's in the final stage of approval i just have to respond.) with the domain name.
2. i'm NOT using that persons name, or company, to people to the site
3. i'm not making a profit from the site, never have even though i could if i wanted
4. not cybersitting, or trying to sell/profit from the domain
what they have and don't:
1. no copyright, no trademark to the actual name
2. they do have a trademark but it doesn't protain to anything outside of clothing. (keep in mind the US Patent and Trademark office will not process a trademark if the see conflict)
3. A lot of money probably close to $100+ million
4. they also don't own two domains that are products of theres. (which i could use in my favor)
I've done all of me response in writing, not mentioning money (really don't care about that) it's up to them if they want to offer. It's pretty much a lawyers job to threaten and scare you. It would cost me personal about $3500 to get a lawyer which i'm considering just based on principle. The internet lawyer i spoke to said not many people fight cases based on principle. but, i've invested time and money into the site and never thought about getting anything back from it other than a popular fun site. And to just hand it over someone after running it for 2 years and receiving pretty damn good traffic, is just not right.
only time will tell... i hope everything goes okay 50/50 chance. thanks for all the good and bad advice guys =)
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