Originally Posted by TheSquealer

I look forward to the inevitable shock, surprise and disbelief at receiving a C&D from Home Depot

For someone thats been in this industry this long, you should know better.

Originally Posted by TampaToker

First thing i thought as well

Originally Posted by NaughtyVisions

So I guess The Home Depot should be after Office Depot and Pet Depot as well?


Edit: Image appears broken to me, and didn't look at the site before posting. But, if OP changes color scheme and logo font, he should be fine, given the other businesses who use the term "depot."

Originally Posted by TheSquealer

Quite amusing that you attempt to appear intelligent with a rhetorical question that doesn't address the issue at all and makes you look quite ignorant... and then you actually figure things out for yourself and add your own followup analysis addressing points which we saw as being painfully obvious because you initially had no fucking clue that its pretty obvious you'd be wise to change the trademarked font and trademarked color and confusing resemblance to a trademarked name and logo.

Originally Posted by L-Pink

A trademark is diluted when the use of similar or identical trademarks in other non-competing markets means that the trademark in and of itself will lose its capacity to signify a single source.

In other words, unlike ordinary trademark law, dilution protection extends to trademark uses that do not confuse consumers regarding who has made a product. Instead, dilution protection law aims to protect sufficiently strong trademarks from losing their singular association in the public mind with a particular product, perhaps imagined if the trademark were to be encountered independently of any product.

Under trademark law, dilution occurs either when unauthorized use of a mark "blurs" the "distinctive nature of the mark" or "tarnishes it." Likelihood of confusion is not required. 15 U.S.C §§ 1127, 1125©.


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Originally Posted by JFK

me too