Trademark Infringement?

[Jared]

What do you guys think? This site http://www.filesaversdatarecovery.com has this phrase under their logo:
"The Data Recovery Medics"

Seems like trademark infringement to me. I normally wouldn't care, except that they created a Cranston, RI page. No one outside of RI has ever heard of Cranston, so I know they got it from scoping out my site.

It's like the whole logo is a convolution of Drive Savers and Data Medics.

 

[pclab]

Yeap, if you have your name registered, I don't see why not. But I'm not a lawyer.... :mrgreen:

 

[jol]

I'm not a lawyer either, but windows commander had to change his name (total commander) after bill gates (microsoft ) sued him (so I heard)

 

[Jared]

Though I suppose that if I'm going to open that can of worms, I have to also sue this company: http://www.sandiegorecovery.com/index.php
And this one: http://www.macmedics.com/recovery.htm
And definitely this one: http://www.datamedics.com/local/summit/ ... overy.html
This one too: http://www.digitalmedics.com/services/data-recovery/
And these guys: http://digitalmedix.com/
Them too: http://www.pcmedics911.net/services/data-recovery
And them: http://www.techmedics.com/it-services/d ... overy.html

Man, I'd need a team of lawyers. Good thing I just trademarked it to protect myself from anyone's cease and desist orders under a trademark. Now if anyone has a complaint about me using it, I can slap them back with a court order.

 

[LarrySabo]

[post]4931[/post] Good thing I just trademarked it to protect myself from anyone's cease and desist orders under a trademark.

Yeah, that's about all it's good for, I figure. You'd go broke pursuing everybody who using a similar name.

 

[Jared]

Exactly. Short of actually using the name Data Medics and copying my content like that one website, I don't expect to do much enforcing. Just protecting my own rights to use the name without any issue.

 

[jol]

And definitely this one: http://www.datamedics.com/local/summit/ ... overy.html

the interesting thing is they exist from 1997 and you from 2010, and you have the right to sue them

 

[Jared]

Yep, he who trademarks first owns the rights. Like I said, did it only to protect myself.

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