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To: bwteim
There's not much point in suing poor people ;)

More seriously, had you ever heard of any of those before googling them up? I hadn't, but I did know Tiger Direct. In order for a lawsuit to go anywhere, you have to show a substantial likelihood that people will conflate your trademarked company/product with someone else's company/product. If nobody's ever heard of the other guy, you're not going anywhere because there's no likelihood of confusion.

73 posted on 04/28/2005 6:55:19 PM PDT by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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To: general_re

I Googled as I never heard of TigerDirect. The only goods I associate with Tiger are the Uniroyal Tiger Paws and a good Nepalese beer called Tiger.


78 posted on 04/28/2005 7:06:26 PM PDT by bwteim
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To: general_re
In order for a lawsuit to go anywhere, you have to show a substantial likelihood that people will conflate your trademarked company/product with someone else's company/product.

Swordmaker was confused when he went looking for Tiger Direct software and found OS X 10.4 instead.

93 posted on 04/28/2005 7:56:51 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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