WhosHere's response to Brian Hamachek/Who's Near Me
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WhosHere's response to Brian Hamachek/Who's Near Me
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Re: WhosHere's response to Brian Hamachek/Who's Near Me
#2Still... I mean Who's Here and Who's Near Me are in no way similar as far as the TradeMark is in my opinion. Come on.
Re: WhosHere's response to Brian Hamachek/Who's Near Me
#3Weasels. Seriously.
Re: WhosHere's response to Brian Hamachek/Who's Near Me
#4Great response. Very direct, with no vague language. Thank you for posting - now I'm looking at your app in a positive light!
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Re: WhosHere's response to Brian Hamachek/Who's Near Me
#6I don't get it. If you are the small bootstrapped ultra-busy startup founder, why continue to concern yourself with this stuff.
He was willing to rebrand his app, even though the trademark registration was apparently not finalized at this point. So at which point did they feel entitled to make the demands they were making?
Re: WhosHere's response to Brian Hamachek/Who's Near Me
#7Let's do a kickstarter defence fund for WhosHere too and let the crowd decide! Bread and circuses.
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#8They are patent trolls. The worst is that maybe they not even realize it.
Re: WhosHere's response to Brian Hamachek/Who's Near Me
#9You made a decision to turn him down. He made a decision to turn you down. That part of it is not really at issue, in my opinion.
You turned him down, he decided to do it on his own, and called it a different name. I don't think I would confuse the two. If he'd wanted to cash in on your TM (as said in the other thread) he wouldda called it simply "Who's Near". Changing the web address to wnmlive was a huge compromise in my opinion.
Re: WhosHere's response to Brian Hamachek/Who's Near Me
#10I'm slightly more sympathetic having heard their side--there is more to it than just random legal threats out of the blue.
..BUT.. This suit revolves more around "we felt wronged" than "this clearly infringes our trademark." The only similarity in the trademark is the word "who." The law is the law, your feelings are irrelevant.