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Don't worry your little head about it, Primalex. Kybe's site is called Gentle Medusa. That's all it takes to make it legally a different name.

no need to be a korinthenkacker.

a korinthiwhater?

I also love how you think this is some kind of common knowledge but googling "medusa TM" and "versace medusa trademark" pulls up nothing in regard to IP, no "this is our trademark" nothing.

If it's a client of yours and you're in IP I think maybe they'd want to actually mention it and pursue it with the 300,000 other people in jewelry who are using a common name from Classical mythology in branding themselves. G'luck. It's a lot of cease and desists to send, but it at least might let people know, since you seem to be the one who does.

I've learned from selling online that everyone and his dog thinks they have a TM and they're out to protect everyone else's. ONLY THE HOLDER OF THE IP or their AGENTS has the right to enforce their own copyright or IP - it gets very sticky if I don't care if people take my IP and some do-gooder does.

Sanrio gets off its ass and does this, rightfully and very aggressively- if Versace can't be assed to, it's their problem and they're allowing the fact that most people are in fact ignorant of the TM to go on.

I know that at least in the UK and thus presumably the EU I'm safe. I do think I should maybe read up a bit more on TMs and stuff just in case I become hugely successful.

I can hope!

Sanrio and Disney. And MGM, if they have someone like JK Rowling to consider.

But that reminds me of a story...

years and years ago, I got a nasty email form someone who tlod me that "I had better not try to steal her designs" (for magic wands) and that "Exotic Wood wands was her trademark and if I used it i would GO TO JAIL.

I checked, in total disbelief. She did have a "pending" copyright on some generic words, which she did not get, and a trademark that was only good in her home state.

her work stunk (and still stinks. She has nothing beyond the crudest of woodworking skills and zero design sensibility) She used to have this disclaimer of about a thousand words on every page of her site, about how she was NOT a "witch" and Christian parents did not need to worry about their children getting tainted by magic-- but if they bought a toy magic wand from anyone else, they would. She also demanded that people tell her if they came across anyone stealing her designs. Most of that has gone now. Her site is still full of totally half-assededly disguised Harry Potter and LOTR references. Keeping a website is a mighty inexpensive proposition, I have no idea how well she does. But every once in a while, someone tells me about her, all worried and shit

Needless to say, i did not respond. Although I wanted to say; "Stop worrying, your dog will come back and the truck will get fixed."

Well I have the thing on the bottom of my pages, about owning the concept, but I know full well it's not really enforceable, but just as the woman doing the silver 'pearl necklaces' can't really stop her idea from being commercially exploited, I would hope that no one would want to nick the idea outright. I mean if you can do it, then why not do something unique?

btw, do your magic wands guarantee orgasm or what?

 

[midwestyankee]

I know that at least in the UK and thus presumably the EU I'm safe. I do think I should maybe read up a bit more on TMs and stuff just in case I become hugely successful.

I can hope!

If you become hugely successful, I can introduce you to one of the top half-dozen IP attorneys here in the states. No sweatski from there on out.

 

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If you become hugely successful, I can introduce you to one of the top half-dozen IP attorneys here in the states. No sweatski from there on out.

now there's an incentive!

 

[midwestyankee]

now there's an incentive!

I'm sure we can negotiate a suitable in-kind compensation for the introduction.

 

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I'm sure we can negotiate a suitable in-kind compensation for the introduction.

why Sir! whatever do you you mean?

 

[Daddy2mylilgirl]

Medusa is not a TM for the purposes of jewelry (or jewelery, or jewellery) in the US.

You're safe.

 

[midwestyankee]

why Sir! whatever do you you mean?

You're a creature of fine imagination. I'll let you conjure for a while and I'm confident that you'll find an appealing resolution in the end.

 

[Primalex]

there are about three dozen jewellry companies all using Medusa somewhere in the name, either as the actual trade name or as a jewellery line.

There are also at least three dozen child porn sites on the web.

But thanks for alerting me to the issue. I did a check with the UK Intellectual property office and it came up negative, so I figure I'm ok.

I figure your search skills are bad.

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ohim?ohimnum=E975847

 

[Primalex]

googling "medusa TM"

Googling for a trademark...you are kidding, right?

 

[Primalex]

Don't worry your little head about it, Primalex. Kybe's site is called Gentle Medusa. That's all it takes to make it legally a different name.

No idea what your skills are, if you have any, but pretty please, shut the fuck up if you have really no clue about certain topics.

 

[Primalex]

I also love how you think this is some kind of common knowledge

Yes. I think that there needs to be some kind of common knowledge when you start a business. Things you need to check BEFORE you start it. Proper accounting for example. You think:"I'm a poor little website owner, I didn't know how to do this, please, I don't deserve a fine!" will get you far?

 

[Primalex]

(The most interesting thing is how people seem to think that it's a good idea to downplay legal issues for a business owner and then think they do their virtual friend a favor with this.

This whole discussion is for me as strange as when those people would defend unprotected sex with strangers. Well, I've mentioned my fair share, that's a bad idea to do this and all the others have expressed that it's no problem, the risk is so small, who cares about it and condoms suck anyway and it's too much effort to buy some anyway - and hey, I rub my penis in Coca Cola and I've never gotten a STD. This is the level of argumentation I read here and I can just shake my head in disbelief.

Statements have been exchanged, so this will be my last posting here in the thread.)

 

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You're a creature of fine imagination. I'll let you conjure for a while and I'm confident that you'll find an appealing resolution in the end.

I'll think of something.

There are also at least three dozen child porn sites on the web.



I figure your search skills are bad.

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ohim?ohimnum=E975847

I'm not sure what child porn has to do with it, but "gentle medusa" doesn't come up with anything.

(The most interesting thing is how people seem to think that it's a good idea to downplay legal issues for a business owner and then think they do their virtual friend a favor with this.

This whole discussion is for me as strange as when those people would defend unprotected sex with strangers. Well, I've mentioned my fair share, that's a bad idea to do this and all the others have expressed that it's no problem, the risk is so small, who cares about it and condoms suck anyway and it's too much effort to buy some anyway - and hey, I rub my penis in Coca Cola and I've never gotten a STD. This is the level of argumentation I read here and I can just shake my head in disbelief.

Statements have been exchanged, so this will be my last posting here in the thread.)

I know you say you won't post again, and I also understand what you are saying here, but whilst 'medusa' on its own is trademarked, 'gentle medusa' isn't.

now should down the line Versace brings its corporate weight against me, I'll take it on to the best of my ability.

 

[Stella_Omega]

a korinthiwhater?

a guy that shits out little raisins, one at a time...

Well I have the thing on the bottom of my pages, about owning the concept, but I know full well it's not really enforceable, but just as the woman doing the silver 'pearl necklaces' can't really stop her idea from being commercially exploited, I would hope that no one would want to nick the idea outright. I mean if you can do it, then why not do something unique?

indeed. I can't stop anyone from lathe turning magic wands. Or dildos. I have a page of links to other wandmakers that I respect, which does not include that person, and the same for indipendent sex toy makers when I get dendrophil back up. [/QUOTE]

btw, do your magic wands guarantee orgasm or what?[/QUOTE]nope, but people buy them anyway!