Today I received a Cease and desist letter from an out of state lawyers office. They state in the letter that my website has been using the trademarked phrase of their client and accused me of profiting from it. (For the record I am a domain investor and the domain name in question I acquired last month. I never put any content on the website, advertised or sold products on it. Even the domain name itself has no words nor phrases of their clients trademark.) To make matters more comical, the envelope that contained the document didn't even spell my last name correctly, nor did they correctly spell my name in the document itself. Along other misspellings of my email address that I registered the domain with.
The letter also states that I am to show proof of recorded sales and all profits earned by infringing on their clients trademarked phrase ( again I never sold or advertised on this website...No sales whatsoever.) and says their client is entitled to all lost profits up to 3 times the amounts...(3x0=0 last time I checked) ..There are a lot more threatening sentences in this letter but to keep things short, they gave me a week to write them back with me agreeing to all terms listed in the document, or they will proceed with litigation.
My question is what actions should I take, when the only thing Ive done was buy a domain name last month that contains none of the "phrase" in question nor has ever had any content/sales/or advertising on it... Its been a blank website since I obtained ownership.
I also actually had to look the law firm up online to get contact information , as none was provided in the document.
Thanks for any and all advice.
The letter also states that I am to show proof of recorded sales and all profits earned by infringing on their clients trademarked phrase ( again I never sold or advertised on this website...No sales whatsoever.) and says their client is entitled to all lost profits up to 3 times the amounts...(3x0=0 last time I checked) ..There are a lot more threatening sentences in this letter but to keep things short, they gave me a week to write them back with me agreeing to all terms listed in the document, or they will proceed with litigation.
My question is what actions should I take, when the only thing Ive done was buy a domain name last month that contains none of the "phrase" in question nor has ever had any content/sales/or advertising on it... Its been a blank website since I obtained ownership.
I also actually had to look the law firm up online to get contact information , as none was provided in the document.
Thanks for any and all advice.
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