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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: CMC Airboss on January 19, 2004, 01:25:55 PM
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What will 17 year olds come up with next???
from CNN
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- It's Microsoft versus Mike Rowe-soft.
Rowe, a 17-year-old high school senior and Web designer from Victoria, has angered the software giant by registering an Internet site with the address http://www.MikeRoweSoft.com.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/19/offbeat.mike.rowe.soft.ap/index.html
MiG
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"He wrote back asking to be compensated for giving up his name. Microsoft's lawyers offered him $10 in U.S. funds. Then he asked for $10,000. "
hahahahahahahahaha :D
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The word here is 'haggling'.
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LOL
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Copyright infringement.. ehh?
Give me a break for christ sake :rofl
MS needs to pull out their heads from their arses.
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Go Microsoft! Obviously, anyone going to mikerowesoft.com would be completely baffled and actually think they were at microsoft.com. I can see why they're upset!
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If you can not spell Microsoft.. thats your own fault. MS should go jump in the lake for that one..
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Bill gates is going under the ebonics ruling of 1998 LOL.
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I think the real issue is that he added "soft" to the end of his name in order to poke fun at Microsoft. Sure, he can keep his name "Mike Rowe", but he deliberately added "soft" to the end to draw a comparison to Microsoft. That's called "willful intent" in legal circles. :)
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Hehehe!
Next Microsoft will be going after PeopleSoft which happens to be the #1 HR software in the US.
http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/public_index.jsp
The only problem is PeopleSoft is HUGE... they have an army of lawyers.
Poor MikeRoweSoft --- can you say SQUISH!
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ACLU will tear old Bill up on this one I think.
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God, Micrsoft is a bunch of tards!lmao. And then they b*tch and complain about 10K, that is nothing to billy gates. They should just give Mike his quick fix and leave us alone with their World Domination.
As Noted bya Robin Williams stand up act:
JUDGE: Are you aware that you have created a monoply Mr. Gates?
Gates: Monoply is only a game your honor, I'm after the whole fluff'n world.
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Originally posted by mrblack
ACLU will tear old Bill up on this one I think.
Since when does the ACLU give a rat's bellybutton about Canadians?
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Wow! Ten dollars!
Hey, I would have taken it.. Microsoft actually gave money to someone. :)
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Buh. 10 bucks doesnt even cover all the necessary steps to claim the domain and set it up for good.. let alone the need to re-advertise a new address and loss caused by the change!
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If you do not defend your trademark you may lose your rights to the exclusive use.
That's why Disney goes after day care centers that might call themselves Mickey and Minnie's or McDonalds defends their name and image so strenuously.
Some product names have become so synonymous with the products that it is difficult for them to retain exclusive use. Kleenex and Fridgidaire had difficulty re-upping the rights for the use of their own names in their history so companies tend to doggedly defend trademarks .
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Geez.. MikeRoweSoft could be very well it's own trademark.. thats quite far fetched trademark protection and if trademark would involve this far fetched examples, then you could pretty much own all the possible words with a few trademarks.
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Still, if you do not defend your home ground you will lose the legal right to do so.
Recently there was a lady on the Oregon Coast that was owned by by the last name Buch. She called herself Starr and opened up a coffee shop.
The Seattle coffee nazis hired lawyers to shut her down and rightly so. Spelled differently, but sounded the same and infringed on the trademark.
Mike Rowe did it more or less as a joke but he knew it was close enough for comparison. Bill thought so too.