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Originally Posted by stever
kane I meant if you were the first to make the solo girl site
not just buy a domain similar to a solo girl site that already exists
also I don't think you can trademark a name like Mary Jane?
since it is not a name like Microsoft
how can some first last name that thousands of people have be a brand?
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So for example you create a solo girl site with a girl named Mary Jane then down the road a company comes along and starts a solo girl site and they name her Mary Jane. You are wondering if you have the right to the name since you had it first? Is this what you mean?
If that is the question then I'm not 100% sure of the answer. If you owned it first and can prove that you were doing business with it before the existence of this new solo girl they might have a tough time taking it away from you.
there was a guy several years ago who owned a variation of Altavista and used it as business site. He owned it before the search engine ever existed. The search engine tried to take it from him but he won his case since he was able to show he owned it and was using it before they ever existed.
As for trademarking names, as others have said you sure can do that.