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    larsturms is offline Junior Member
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    Trademark Infringement

    Hello,
    I own a domain name ENTERpreneur.com I received a letter from a law firm representing ENTREpreneur.com stating
    trademark infringement and asking me to cease and desist, close my website and hand over my domain name.
    What are my options? I thought that Entrepreneur is a generic name.

    Please advise...
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    FlyingRon is offline Senior Member
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    It's easy to make demands. Domain disputes unfortunately aren't ruled by any sane rule of law. The questions is whether you have legitimate use to the domain.

    You haven't given us any details to determine if you're just a squatter or person in bad faith using that domain or not.
    I'm not a lawyer, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.
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    Quote Originally Posted by larsturms View Post
    Hello,
    I own a domain name ENTERpreneur.com
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    do you use the domain for anything or are you just setting on it? If using it, does the other entity operate a business that offers similar services or products? Has the other entity registered their name as a trademark (not sure it is possible). Have you registered any trademark?
    Last edited by justalayman; 04-15-2012 at 11:12 AM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by larsturms View Post
    Hello,
    I own a domain name ENTERpreneur.com I received a letter from a law firm representing ENTREpreneur.com stating
    trademark infringement and asking me to cease and desist, close my website and hand over my domain name.
    What are my options? I thought that Entrepreneur is a generic name.

    Please advise...
    Well...there are two different websites that are enterpreneur.com and enterprenour.com, but no website for either entreprenour or entrepreneur.com so either you aren't giving us the whole story or somebody is "fishing" to get rid of people who have similar web addresses when they haven't even set one up themselves yet.
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