Good luck indeed. The use by the trade mark holder is from 1999, with three existing trade marks, plus the URL trade mark, in addition to the fact there was some notice to the registrant some time ago. Add on the fact they can simply send a letter to your parking service to turn off the revenue stream and 20K
cents might be a better price.
Not that hard depending. I know personally of 2 cases one I owned and one my buddy owned. The person that wanted mine went and registered a trademark (got approved) but has no legs to stand on because my date was prior to his date but even though they have my name nobody contacted me you have to look up the trademark journals when they are published to find out.
There is no requirement to contact you.
The case of solo.ca - the domain holder has owned this name since 2000/12/04 and the trademark was dated - 2007-02-15 ... They will have a harder time getting it unless solo.ca has parking revenue from mobile phones or/and solo was active prior to the date of registration and you could show confusion in the marketplace.
There are 71 parking pages in the last few years, so "Solo Mobile" sticks out pretty clearly.
Best advice my lawyer gave me - Trademarks come down to goods & services so as long as you are not causing confession based on what you have offered and have registered it in good faith you will stand a good chance on holding on to it.
We looked at this closely: first use is earlier than the registration, and the parking clearly relied upon the mark.
Good name and my opinion would be to contact the Canadian Trademark people and ask them what's required to have that mark removed since they have never owned the domain or rights to that...or the cheaper root just don't use it for anything mobile. Personally put up a solo porn page that should get a offer going.
Good Luck and the above information is just my experience not legal advice.
Cheers.
It is a bit late for all that: it is far cheaper - around $7K - to fight a registration of a trade mark while it is still under consideration. In this case, it is on top of three related marks, so it is way beyond this.
But do be careful here with "put up a solo porn page" since they have already shown the registrant some sort of notice, which means they would see such a move as actionable.
