It is not illegal to have the Cisco name in your domain name unless you use
it for Cisco Systems content. After all, there is a Cisco fish, drink, city
and kid to name just a few, and none of those are in violation of the Cisco
Systems trademark.
Tell them you'll hand it over for $10K or a free
You know, come to think about it, Cisco is also a trademark of the
Canadaigua Wine Company. Canadaigua's been around since 1945. Not sure
how long they've been making Cisco wine but IIRC it's longer than Cisco
Systems has been around. Boy, I bet the folks over at Canadaigua would
like to hear
What they are asking is unwarranted, outrageous, and simply wrong. But how
do you want to prove that?
Cisco ( and every giant company for that matter ) has a herd of attorneys
that can unleash after you like hyenas. For you to defend yourself, the
first step is to retain an attorney with a
The actual cost would be quite high by the time I figured in everything
I could think of. Send them a bill for your efforts for however long you've
had this site. If they balk, you could maybe turn it into a cisco-sucks
site.
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Finally, Cisco does not provide compensation for the
Not only that but we have Sysco!
By the way did I tell you about my Sysco Certifications?
Nope, nope, not going there again. LOL
whatshakin wrote:
It is not illegal to have the Cisco name in your domain name unless you use
it for Cisco Systems content. After all, there is a Cisco fish,
Yeah - that's a good idea!!!
Change your website to one that is a shrine to the Cisco beverage!!! I bet
that they won't complain... Remove all of the info that pertains to Cisco
Systems - all of it - and replace it with pictures of the Cisco drink and
anecdotes about what you did when you
http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/submar/ss290.htm
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It seems like if they think you're infringing on their copyright, thats
enough for them. I had to give up musicman.org because Musicman is a
copyrighted trademark of ernie ball guitars. This is in spite of the fact
that I was not selling anything, it was a .org site, and Musicman is also
the
But his site does have Cisco content as well as a great deal of the data is
coppied straing from their site. This is a problem. Secondly, I really
would not want to mess with Cisco's legal dept.
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