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DNF$: 582 Location: England | SonyVideo.com I thought that Sony were highly litigious, but they seem to have let www.sonyvideo.com run as a search service since 1999. http://web.archive.org/web/*/sonyvideo.com Does this mean it was a valid use of the name? |
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DNF$: 454 Location: London-Kuwait | I am not a lawyer ... but I hope you didnt register the domain. Whether its TM or not would you have registered the domain if SONY didnt exist? |
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DNF$: 2,778 Location: Aberdeen South Dakota | Interesting scenario but I think rather than being appropriate use it is use without the knowledge and consent of Sony. In other words I think Sony just missed this one. Just my opinion but I would be careful.
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DNF$: 163 Location: Angelina Jolie's House | Sony make Video Recorders, which obviously comes under the TM Category of 'Video Equipment' or 'Entertainment Equipment'. And they would be foolish as hell if they don't have a registration of the Entertainment category. So any use of Sony together with Entertainment-related words, including Video is a breach of their Registered Trademark. An easy case for a UDRP lawyer. They are unlikely to have a registration of Foodstuffs category (eg: Sony Fruit), so you could have sonyfruit.com, but the rule of thumb is, the bigger the corporation, the more you have to be careful (and afraid) - and Sony's as big as they come, so it isn't worth it. |
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DNF$: 582 Location: England | But Sony is a nice company with good products. Seriously, I need to learn about domain owning problems, so I'll probably run it as far as I can if they do complain, although I would prefer to work with them in providing a service to potential customers. The Sony web structure is complex, and it's made worse by search engine's paid placement policies and susceptibility to spamming. I haven't bought the name to sell. I'm not depriving them of the name - they could have claimed it at any time since 1999, but they haven't. I bought the name off a drop list, and I'm sure that they monitor these. I'm offering a useful service to surfers. I'm not attemting to diminish their company or the reputation of their products. It seems to me that I'm helping them. ![]() |
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