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Vrume Mark
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Has Anyone Ever Sued Another Adult Company For Name Infringement?
Like say for example your revenue program is called "Drinkinghard Bucks". Now this program is widely successful and you have spent years building it up to what it is today. Then someone comes along and calls their program "Drinkinghard Revenue" LOL!
I don't know man but I would be quite pissy if someone came along and tried to spin their site off the success of mine. Would you have any recourse to sue this other company on a trademark infringment (if you had a trademark registered) or just on the simple fact that you are losing business due to another company that has such a similar name and could be confused with? Just wondering what the concensus is here ;) DH |
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![]() edit: yeah i'd be a little pissed. |
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I think if it was involving some very specific names then it could certainly be a case. But if its "regular" names, such as Platinum Bucks and Platinum Revenue, I don't think it would make for much of a case.
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Is the name you are trying to protect trademarked? If not, you might be f'd.
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Like the idiot that recently launched ADULTcontentblowout.com about 1 1/2 years after I introduced ContentBlowout.com?
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I believe ARS sent a complaint over to Trey at Epic Cash over the use of BYOT. No idea what transpired over it.
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Alright, DH, no need to start talking about lawsuits and lawyers ...
I will sell you galerytraficservice.com for 10xCost. If that's not fair, I don't know what is ![]() ![]() ![]() -p |
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You mean like the rip off "platinum revenue"
Rip off of oh my company PLATINUM BUCKS what a sad copy |
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It all depends on trademark..if any
Ray
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I don't know legal at all but I swear half of GFY comes into legal threads and starts dishing out advice when they have no clue what they are talking about.
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Interesting though.
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anyone want to buy
gallerydesignservice.com or galleryhostingservice.com I need to sell them quick before I get sued. - jpoker |
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What about TrumpCash
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So who's gonna be sending traffic to my new program GTSCash?
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I may be wrong...but I remebr them being affilated to BrothersInCash...but dont quote me on that. Ray
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Yup,
Sex.com sued evryone with SEX in their domain name! they made one big mistake they sued "sexia.com" and ended up losing sex.com fucked with the wrong person "Serge" ![]()
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XPays sent a C & D to Phone Sex Pays.
Microsoft went after MikeRoweSoft. Dilution of trademark, I believe.
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