...consider that organizations can lose their trademarks if they don't actively defend them against even vague and doubtful potential infringements. If they let this case slip without issuing a token C&D, it could be cited later by an actual competitor as grounds for permitting their own infringement.
That's not to say that the law isn't stupid, but the proper target for complaints about the stupidity of the law is your local congresscritter, not the lawyers who are just dealing with the laws as they are
I know someone that works for a company that sends these letters. She's a moron. In fact, everyone that "researches" these cases at that company is a moron (at least all the ones I've met) They get a trademark, in this case "The other white meat" as a case file. It comes with the trademark itself, some pictures of how its used on cans and what-not and other basic info. Then they put the terms into a scripting program they have... which is basically just a web crawler. The crawler finds sites that use the te
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...consider that organizations can lose their trademarks if they don't actively defend them against even vague and doubtful potential infringements. If they let this case slip without issuing a token C&D, it could be cited later by an actual competitor as grounds for permitting their own infringement.
That's not to say that the law isn't stupid, but the proper target for complaints about the stupidity of the law is your local congresscritter, not the lawyers who are just dealing with the laws as they are
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I know someone that works for a company that sends these letters. She's a moron.
If we didn't have jobs for morons to do the rest of us would have to support them with welfare.
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We could always send them off on the "B" Ark, and tell them that a giant space goat was about to eat the Earth...
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We could always send them off on the "B" Ark, and tell them that a giant space goat was about to eat the Earth...
No.... thats how we got into this situation in the first place.