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Old 11-17-2006, 06:12 PM
Andy Beard Andy Beard is offline
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There is a similar situation being discussed over on the Warrior Forum today.

A member had a web page which included a trademark.

Not a domain name, not a subdomain, but just a webpage

Thus

www.topleveldomain(dot)com / subdirectory / nodebt.html

It seems "NoDebt" is a registered trademark

It is quite a generic term for anything to do with finance industry

He was sent a C&D

Things like this imho and ianal are just going to extremes, where trademark holders can sue their way to the top of the search engines.

I suppose next we will have people being issued C&D for using a trademark in link text.

"Review of XYZ Trademark" as link text will get you in a $100,000 lawsuit
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