Patenting a name.

Nov 16, 2006 22 Replies

I dunno, Tim, you turn your back for 5 minutes, and they nick the goalposts.

I suppose that means the end of the old guarantee that use of one registered trade mark will not be held to infringe any other. If that's so, it's a bit sad. I always thought that was such a valuable thing.

You don't happen to know anything about the status of ITMA's application for a Royal Charter by any chance, do you? I'm afraid I've lost touch with that too.

I'm not aware of any proposal to change that.

Sorry, I don't know. I'm not a member of ITMA.

In article , Norman Wells writes

Quite so!

In many ways my position is strengthened

Sorry I didn't mean it that way. He wasn't instructed clearly.

I don't agree. Google is your friend!

Wrong! Google is your friend!

And the client was already well aware of our existence. I have more than ample proof of that. At the time (late 80's) our adverts even appeared next to his sometimes!

I would expect any half-competent search agent to at least use a search engine and do an Internet domain name search.

As above. We are in the 21st century now...

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