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Originally Posted by Vjo
Ok real good then you have a better chance. Seems like you are planning to fight this and the q you want to know is if you lose how much can they get?
So maybe I was a little off base in my other post. 
In answer to that. If you lose they could prob get large judgement.
The good news (sort of) is a bankruptcy will render all judgements null at the time of filing the br. Sooo as long as you dont have much to lose it is worth fighting. If you have lots to lose than that is your choice to make.
So these asset factors are very important. They have prob looked into you and feel you have assets thus the likelyhood of you fileing BR is nill (as you would lose most of your assets)
If you have no assets, they may be bluffing.
If you have no assets you hold the Joker in the game of 500. You have a guaranteed last trick that will protect you.
Being poor.. is a powerful weapon in our society. Being rich.. you got to walk on eggshells. |
Some good points.
I don't really have any assets they can go after. So when people say I have nothing to gain and everything to loose, I don't really see it that way. I don't think they are suing me to get any money from it. It's more because it's a part of their IP strategy to strengthen their trademark.
I read a really interesting article about it:
http://ipassetmaximizerblog.com/?p=1118
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From a legal perspective, Facebook likely has little legal standing to extend its trademark rights in a direction that will allow it own either ?face? or ?book? as individual aspects of future trademarks in as-yet-introduced third party products or services. These words are just too non-specific and common to legally signify the source of a product or service. That is, if you as a member of the public saw the word ?face? with another word?say ?music??would you think the company providing that product was the Facebook company? Probably not. So, should Facebook be allowed to own all rights to ?face? or ?book? when combined with another name, as it is now apparently contending? Certainly not, and, without more legally relevant evidence, the Trademark Office is likely to deny Facebook the ability to prevent others from using face or book in their products or services.
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