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For all intensive purposes, your right, but is they're really any need to go over things with a fine toothcomb? As me and everybody else seems to feel, the point hear is mute, and I'm sure yourself agrees. Its clear enough what was meaned.
What are you doing?! I think you just gave me cancer!
Exposure therapy is the usual treatment.
This reminds me about how important it is to have a solid lawyer, and an understanding of the legal ecosystem. Even in cases like this with typos, "respond in ten (10) days" can be quite intimidating, especially when there's a money/legal power asymmetry. In one such case, Monster Cable issued a C&D to a much smaller, Blue Jeans Cable. The founder actually worked in litigation for 19 years and I found this portion of…
A while ago, some folks in my country of origin started to make efforts towards a bill that (had it passed -- needless to say, it had no chance) might have provided some form of solution here. The essence of the bill was that, if one of these bullies sent an unfounded cease and desist letter that failed to explicitly cite its legal basis and was aimed at a company for whom full legal procedures would have had a signi…
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The best line of that letter: Not only am I unintimidated by litigation; I sometimes rather miss it.
If quoted verbatim, the semicolon is used incorrectly. It should be a comma.
It's true that most cease-and-desist letters contain awful legalese, but here's a great example of a well-written, classy one: https://brokenpianoforpresident.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/...
AIUI, trademark is not a tool to protect the manufacturer/seller of a product, but a tool to protect the consumer, to help them avoid confusion in believing that a similar-looking product is from the brand "owning" the trademark.
How can a book (especially an ebook!) be confused as a Jack Daniels product? Surely the purchaser has no expectation that they'll be able to drink from the book.
My understanding is that similar names in unrelated industries do not clash over trademark. For example, Gibson Guitars and Gibson performance cat-back exhausts are so vastly different (despite both making sweet sounds) that nobody is going to be confused
Don't agree with the humor and tact of this letter even though "it worked". "Shmucking" someone can backfire in many cases and cause a bigger problem. To be spiteful (I mean do we really know the mental state of the attorney writing the c and d?) maybe he would decide pro bono to file some action even knowing it might fail, on his own time, to defend his honor. Which this attorney would then have to defend pro bono.…
I have no way to evaluate that claim but it sounds like the tone of the response isn't likely to hurt you in front of a judge.
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If quoted verbatim, the semicolon is used incorrectly. It should be a comma.
Looks correct to me; it joins two independent but topically related clauses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicolon#Usage
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If quoted verbatim, the semicolon is used incorrectly. It should be a comma.
Looks correct to me; it joins two independent but topically related clauses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicolon#Usage
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Looks correct to me; it joins two independent but topically related clauses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicolon#Usage
"Not only am I unintimidated by litigation" doesn't make sense on its own, so I personally wouldn't use a semicolon here
It's true that most cease-and-desist letters contain awful legalese, but here's a great example of a well-written, classy one: https://brokenpianoforpresident.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/...
Why does JD have a trademark claim here in the first place? AIUI, trademark is not a tool to protect the manufacturer/seller of a product, but a tool to protect the consumer, to help them avoid confusion in believing that a similar-looking product is from the brand "owning" the trademark. How can a book (especially an ebook!) be confused as a Jack Daniels product? Surely the purchaser has no expectation that they'll…