Grubhub made websites for many restaurants, sometimes without owners’ knowledge
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Re: Grubhub made websites for many restaurants, sometimes without owners’ knowledge
#2If they are registering the name for the purpose of competition (or coercive cooperation) isn't it a slam-dunk infringement lawsuit?
Re: Grubhub made websites for many restaurants, sometimes without owners’ knowledge
#3We discussed this back in June, it's a despicable practice. Even using images, and logo from existing restaurant websites!
Re: Grubhub made websites for many restaurants, sometimes without owners’ knowledge
#4Some lawyer, somewhere, is likely drawing up a class action suit. Relatively easy to identify and sign up clients.
Re: Grubhub made websites for many restaurants, sometimes without owners’ knowledge
#5We discussed this back in June, it's a despicable practice. Even using images, and logo from existing restaurant websites!
That seems like a pretty big mistake that might cost them.
Re: Grubhub made websites for many restaurants, sometimes without owners’ knowledge
#6"sometimes" from what I've heard elsewhere it should read "nearly all of the time, to benefit financially".
Re: Grubhub made websites for many restaurants, sometimes without owners’ knowledge
#7I have the impression that a class action "cost of doing business, and only if you get caught" handslap only emboldens others.
Would the following work to curtail practices like this?... Courts hit one so hard with punitive damages, and perhaps criminal investigation, that the company is wiped out. Then VCs decide it's bad business, and discourage practices like that (including by not funding someone who tries it once and expects to just serial entrepreneur if it fails), and then other companies take notice.
Re: Grubhub made websites for many restaurants, sometimes without owners’ knowledge
#8We discussed this back in June, it's a despicable practice. Even using images, and logo from existing restaurant websites!
This report has a screenshot of one of the domains:
https://newfoodeconomy.org/grubhub-domain-purchases-thousand...
Re: Grubhub made websites for many restaurants, sometimes without owners’ knowledge
#9Massive Ip Rights infringement
Re: Grubhub made websites for many restaurants, sometimes without owners’ knowledge
#10My father owned a small business that this happened to. Not Grubhub but a "yellow pages" type site set it up. The contact information was correct, so we didn't think much of it. The site went down after a short period, most likely whomever was funding it ran out of money. In his case it was a speculative sales tactic.