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It's a clever concept, but I'm leery of having someone send a letter on my behalf to someone. You all haven't trademarked the idea, have you? I think I'll just write a few of these up myself and send them out.
Agreed. I don’t know what other junk mail will be included, nor how my recipient’s data will be used.
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Trademarked the idea? I don't think that word means what you think it means... I'm not OP, and I'm no lawyer, but I'm sure you're free to try this concept for yourself. Three ways to protect IP Trademark is for logos and names Parents are for methods and inventions Copyright is for works of art and writing They might be able to trademark the phrase "continue and persist", but it's not likely. If they had they would h…
In the US: - a trademark may be claimed with TM even if not registered. A trademark registered with, and accepted by, USPTO should use circle R. - these folks hold the copyright on their specific letter. Avoid infringement (and potential negative legal ramifications) by not reproducing their letter. This is not limited to photocopying a physical paper. Retyping verbatim will infringe. - the concept itself cannot be p…
- The service name “continue and persist” is probably trademarkable by them if they wanted (assuming it’s not already in use). And as you point out, formal registration wouldn’t be necessary, although it does come with various benefits. Doing so could block someone from creating a similar service with the same or confusingly similar name.
- For copyright, reproduction doesn’t have to be verbatim to infringe. The standard is typically substantial similarity. So you couldn’t just change a few words here or there in the letter.
- Publicly disclosed concepts can be protected under US law, but you have to go through patent law. Haven’t done a prior art search, but seems unlikely that there’s much patentable here. There is also the section 101 (abstract idea) issue, but that is hard to evaluate without looking at the exact patent claims at issue.
It's a clever concept, but I'm leery of having someone send a letter on my behalf to someone. You all haven't trademarked the idea, have you? I think I'll just write a few of these up myself and send them out.
> I'm leery of having someone send a letter on my behalf to someone. Agreed. I don’t know what other junk mail will be included, nor how my recipient’s data will be used.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'm leery of having someone send a letter on my behalf to someone. Agreed. I don’t know what other junk mail will be included, nor how my recipient’s data will be used.
Yep. I definitely don't really like friends handing my residential address to third parties to mail me stuff without my consent. They can mail me stuff directly if they want though.