mattyk50

Hi there anyone,

ive just received a letter from a company called "A Quick Sale", claiming Copyright & Trademark Infringement due to me registering the domain name "Quicksalehouses.co.uk", as theirs is www.a-quick-sale.co.uk and they have registered "AQUICK SALE" as a trademark.

i had never even heard of this company before registering the domain for my business. and i only decided on this domain as it is a good search term for my business!

can anyone advise on my position??

thanks in advance

Matt

Alphamale

IMO that is desperate BS on their behalf, I can't believe they'd win that.

write back and tell them you are starting a chain of Ale Houses called "Quicks" and the domain is actually QuicksAleHouses

mattyk50

the letter continues,

"Your use of the name “QuickSale” and the domain name, ‘www.quicksalehouses’ are clearly similar to our client’s trade mark and designed to trade on our client’s reputation and goodwill, and to mislead or confuse members of the public into believing that the services which you supply are those supplied by our client or are else associated with our client, or are sold with its endorsement or approval."


they have set a deadline of 28th of July for me to hand over the domain name to them, and pay their legal expenses

Matt

retired_member16

Cool.

Screw it up and put it in the bin. Or, as always, PM your price if you want to sell.

mattyk50

are you saying that the trademark of "AQUICK SALE" doesnt leave them with much of a legal leg to stand on with regards to my quicksalehouses.co.uk site then?

guy martin

You might be ok if you registered your domain before they obtained their trademark. I believe that's ok, but someone may be better informed and may correct me on this.

Regards
Guy

Jeewhizz

They haven't a leg to stand on imo - and no 'expert' would find the same I would hope

If you don't want the hassle, there are people here who will buy it at a nominal fee off you...

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mattyk50

its not so much the hassle of the legal issue, its the hassle of having to change all my website design/ logo, etc if i change my domain name!

enworb

To me AQUICK SALE and QUICKSALEHOUSES are totally different.

Surely they can't TM such popular generic words.

Personally I think they are annoyed that yours is a better name than theirs. I'd hold onto it if I were you...or at the very least auction it on Sedo. I wouldn't even consider transferring to that company because they will probably use that name from now on

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mattyk50

would you reply to this legal letter then?

ps - feel free to PM me if you would like a read of it in full!