No offense taken sheep shagger
wii for sale runs a reasonably low risk of trademarks because Nintendo dont want too rock the boat simply because this is reasonably their last chance of a good console.
If they start doing trademarks etc for wii for sale I'll eat my hat. If I was advertising as nintendowiisellers then yes this would be more liable, or nintendowiimakers which would be even more so.
As for your comments especially regarding escorow and grid computing, it's not a u turn, if I am wrong I am wrong. I'm only 99% perfect if you look at the escrow then its a case of
www.escrow.com the domain name might be trademarked.
If that is the case then there is no trademark issue, just a case of if someone brought the domain and tried passing themselves off as Escrow then its decepetion to defraud if that can be proved.
So in respects have Nintendo actually trademarked wii or have they trademarked the name wii??
If they havent traded marked the name wii then obviously its like
www.escrow.com the trademark doesnt exist in certain terms.
I apologise when or if I am wrong, but I am man enough to say sorry or apologise if I am wrong.
Do you honestly think that Nintendo will take too court someone saying wiiforsale.co.uk he could have brought it and want to sell his second hand wii not law about selling your console, usually when you sell a second hand console nowadays or another electrical product the warranty doesnt go over to another person.
So for the posts that I have made that maybe or maybe not incorrect that is done off the cuff.
Escrow is a company so unless you know every word in the dictionary then you cannot know that the word is an useable word in the English language and shouldnt be trademarkable but as I said in a previous thread a beefburger chain tried too make sure that no one even the jocks could use their name, which is pretty stupid, but they tried.
What would x-factor have been without the macdonald brothers?
Ok maybe a better tv show but thats off topic
Nintendo are not going to sue this person because hes got wiiforsale.co.uk its overkill for a company that size I could come up with probaly about 20 - 50 wii domains without even thinking about it and not have to worry about trademarks.
As long as your not passing yourself off as Nintendo or misleading and ripping people off, do you think they give a damm about the name?
Something like
www.escrowfunds.co.uk is more open to newsletters and spam to unwilling people who know no better too try and take money from them.
Why do you think there are so many, we know someone who has died letters and the money is in a bank but we need your help dear friend.
A mug a minute so Escrow Funds.co.uk might be used for that kind of purpose,
So doing a bit more checking, escrow.co.uk is reg in England and dot com is usa so reasonably not trademarked or the person hasnt sold too them.
If for example escrow get a complaint regarding escrowfunds.co,uk trying too ask about passwords etc etc then yes they will try and do something abut it, depending upon how far they get is another matter
But....................
Posted May 4th 2006 1:47PM by Christopher Grant
Filed under: Nintendo Wii
Remember last Thursday when some disappointed Wii (née Revolution) fanboys got to thinking, "Hey! There's no trademark on file! It's got to be a publicity stunt! Viva la Revolution!"?
Of course, we tried to set them straight, but the conspiracy theory persisted -- as conspiracy theories are wont to do -- and now, with the help of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, we can see that Nintendo has indeed registered the name "Wii" with no fewer than nine applications!
The trademark applications were filed on April 27 (the day the name was publicly announced), but have a "priority date" of November 11, 2005, meaning they had decided on the new name as far back as November of last year and delayed the trademark registration, lest the proverbial cat be let out of the proverbial bag.
The trademarks cover the use of the name Wii in applications ranging from "printed matter" like iron-on transfers or, who knows, console packaging to "clothing" like wrist-bands or, perhaps maybe, t-shirts. They also cover "watches containing a game function", "providing temporary use of non-downloadable video game programs provided via the Internet", and about a thousand other things, meaning there's a wealth of info to be misinterpreted here by the fan community.
You'd better put your tinfoil hats back on...let the crazy theories commence!
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So ok the wii is possibly trademarked depending upon how their application was processed they might have been refused in the end who knows without checking further but as its near enough 3am fook off.
I would easily purchase this for a fiver and run the risk of Nintendo trying too take me to court, its not worth their time.
remember the saying
all publicity is good publicity, no publicity is bad publicity
Just had a first look at the site as I hadnt even been there befiore the wii has a TM on it so technically if they wanted to take the site down they could but at the moment its a new console, its not breaking major trademark laws so they wouldnt do nothing about it.
I still say keep keep keep and if you do get a letter from Nintendo, I deny everything lol