What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Texas
I received a notice regarding a business in New York who has a software product of similar nature to a software product that I developed and have been selling for the past few years.
This other company has trademark on their product name, and according to the letter their attorney sent they think we are trying to deceive their customers to purchase our product instead of theirs.
Now, up until this point we have not sold our product to any customers outside of about a 100 mile radius of our town, and as far as I can tell nobody in our area has ever even heard of their product before.
As a matter of fact, when we first created our product we did extensive research into the market to determine who our competitors would be, and never came across their product at all.
The first I ever heard of their product was this letter they sent to us.
Our product name is shorter than theirs, and is basically just missing 2 extra letters that they use that we do not.
Anything I can do to protect my product name, and business from liability?
I would understand the problems if we knew in advance about the existence of their product, but we did not. I even called a few other people I know in the same industry and they had never heard of the other product.
I received a notice regarding a business in New York who has a software product of similar nature to a software product that I developed and have been selling for the past few years.
This other company has trademark on their product name, and according to the letter their attorney sent they think we are trying to deceive their customers to purchase our product instead of theirs.
Now, up until this point we have not sold our product to any customers outside of about a 100 mile radius of our town, and as far as I can tell nobody in our area has ever even heard of their product before.
As a matter of fact, when we first created our product we did extensive research into the market to determine who our competitors would be, and never came across their product at all.
The first I ever heard of their product was this letter they sent to us.
Our product name is shorter than theirs, and is basically just missing 2 extra letters that they use that we do not.
Anything I can do to protect my product name, and business from liability?
I would understand the problems if we knew in advance about the existence of their product, but we did not. I even called a few other people I know in the same industry and they had never heard of the other product.