The Patent Office is very helpful. You need to look at Trade Marks and Design Rights. From a cursory
read of the stuff I think they might struggle as I doubt you are acting in the areas defined by
their trademarks and could hardly be said to be likely to confuse their customers.
You could always offer to sell them the name and domain name. Friends of mine beat of McDonalds when
they tried to stop him calling a chain of Chinese fast food shops McChina. The judge in Court said
of McDonalds "Anyone who thinks they own rights to anything with the Mc prefix should consult the
Glasgow telephone directory"
Tony
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> Sorry for the utter and almost complete OT-ness of this post[1] but you lot
are
> always quoting bits and pieces from laws. Anyone any idea if the text to
the UK
> law relating to Trademark infringement and internet domin names is on the
web?
> A website I occasionally visit is under threat of legal action by Toy R Us
> (
http://www.ratzrus.co.uk/toysrus.htm), despite being non-commercial and not about Toy R Us at
> all. We don't think that the trademark laws apply to non-commercial sites but would like to make
> sure. Any other information
would
> be helpful if you've got it to hand - I assume this kind of pointless
bullying
> happens quite a lot.
>
> Oh, to make it a bit on topic, my rat absolutely loves sitting on the
handlebars
> of my bike when I'm riding. It'll be wearing lycra next...
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> [1] If you're using OE then Tool, Message Rules, News, New. Then click the
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> at the bottom and type in [OT] (including the square brackets). You'll never see another correctly
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