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Old 04-05-2005, 09:35 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Is Pepsilime a trademark?

Is Pepsilime a TM name?

They do not have any trademarks on the name pepsilime or pepsi lime listed anywhere.

Currently pepsi owns diet pepsi lime .com and i bought pepsilime prior to pepsi registering dietpepsilime


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Old 04-05-2005, 11:08 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Is Pepsilime a trademark?

Pepsi is trademarked, and since the domain contains their trademark they could say it is confusingly similar and registered in bad faith or simply claim trademark dilution.
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Old 04-05-2005, 02:23 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Re: Is Pepsilime a trademark?

steven22, your domain is definitely a trademark infringement. i would let it drop, not worth the high risk it entails.
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Old 04-06-2005, 11:02 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Is Pepsilime a trademark?

The word Pepsi is backed and protected by a company that literally has mountains of disposable cash.

I doubt it would trouble them much to defend their legal business name. It's not worth the potential headache.
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Re: Is Pepsilime a trademark?

Heavy Duty TM issues and not worth to engange in legal disputes with Pepsi. My advice is to let it drop.
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Re: Is Pepsilime a trademark?

A no brainer. You are treading on their rights.
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Old 04-08-2005, 01:56 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Re: Is Pepsilime a trademark?

What everybody has said is true.
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Re: Is Pepsilime a trademark?

Hi,
I am glad none of you are lawyers...LOL

We have come to an agreement and the domain has sold for $4500.00


Thank you for your imput!
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Old 04-08-2005, 02:49 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Re: Is Pepsilime a trademark?

Wow, congratulations on the sale!
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Re: Is Pepsilime a trademark?

Sold to whom? To Pepsi?

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Re: Is Pepsilime a trademark?

The domain hasn't officially been transfered yet. It looks like Steven still has it. My guess is that Pepsico is willing to pay the small sum of $4500 to get the domain because it is probably less than or equal to the amount of money it would cost them to fight for it. There is also a possibility that they are launching the new beverage sometime in the near future and they don't want to risk not having the domain in time for launch.
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Re: Is Pepsilime a trademark?

So what you are advertising here is that if we all register pepsi related domains for the $6.00 reg fee, we can expect a company like pepsi to settle with figures in excess of out of pocket expenses.

The mere fact that Pepsi settled without issuing you a non-disclosure as terms of sale is very suprising.

I will grab my popcorn, sit back and watch to see if the whois information changes over to that of PEPSI Co.

Pull up a seat everyone..... steven22 vs. Pepsi Co is about to commence
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Re: Is Pepsilime a trademark?

If Pepsi is buying it for $4500 --that is surprising to me.

Large corporations usually do not make such payments to cybersquatters.
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Re: Is Pepsilime a trademark?

And nobody pays ransoms to kindappers either... I've had a similar experience with a major non U.S corporation, though I only grabbed the domain for it's traffic and didn't know they would want it back.
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Re: Is Pepsilime a trademark?

At first glance, I thought it said pepsiSLIME. MM MM Good.
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Re: Is Pepsilime a trademark?

you arent the only one who thought that, adoptable. its easy to accidentally transpose the letters when you are reading it. i hope pepsico is smart enough to market it as two different words, Pepsi Lime, rather PepsiLime or anything like that.
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Re: Is Pepsilime a trademark?

There was just a Coke Lime commercial on television so you know that Pepsi Lime will be available very soon.
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