Partners and I formed a new company called "Black Cricket Technology". We do
Web Hosting and Development and have a Document Library. A company called
"Cricket Technologies" filled suit against us. They also do web hosting and
Document Management. We would have fought it but we are fairly new and had
not really made a good brand out of it yet. And to top it off Cricket
Technologies is geared toward Law firms and ran by attorneys. There Document
Management is far superior to ours but then again my document library is not
intended for such large scale.
Http://www.blackcricket.com <http://www.blackcricket.com/>
http://www.cricket.com <http://www.cricket.com/>
If you go to Google and type in Document Management. Neither company is
returned in the results.
If you type in Cricket Document Management then both of us are in the first
page.
My question is what would you search for if you needed Document Management?
Rick
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 10:37 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: www.mikerowesoft.com domain
Well, considering "Mike Rowe" is his name, he's a web designer, and
mikerowe.com is already registered, it's not that out of the question.
Thing is, it's a trademark issue, and that's muddy. I can go out, right
now, and open a restaurant called "Oracle Chicken Wings", and Oracle
can't sue me for that, since they're in the Database and app server
business and Ellison hasn't expressed an interest in acquiring KFC recently.
Microsoft's tried to nail people for making plays on their name before -
remember Lindows? Remember the lawsuit? Notice how it's still called
Lindows? They lost that, and they'll lose this one as well. Microsoft
is a gigantic, multinational software company with tens of billions of
dollars in the bank and billions in revenues. Mike Rowe is a high
school kid in Canada who charges $25 for a web page. If you confuse the
two, your internet privileges should be revoked. He's just playing off
their name, and not threatening any aspect of their business.
- Jim
Bushy wrote:
>Hi all,
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>Whats your thoughts on this frigg'in puke in British Columbia CANADA trying
to monopolize on www.mikerowesoft.com.?
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>To be fair to MS it is copyright infringement.
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>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/20/rowe.fight/index.html
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