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Mathew's comments: Craigslist fires legal cannon at blogger

  • ianbetteridge · 1 year ago
    You can only groan at the idiocy of a CEO actually writing a mail like this. If you want to make a serious legal point, you let your lawyers handle it. If you're afraid that you'll look bad if you have a legal request, talk to someone informally before you start making demands. And if you're angry - as Jim Buckmaster seems to be from his passive-aggressive language - then you don't write emails to anyone.
  • mathewi · 1 year ago
    Agreed on all points, Ian.
  • Matt Hendry · 1 year ago
    Easy ....offer to buy the domain for a crazy amount of dollars like other well funded companies do when they want dissenting opinion quashed and there's a domain name dispute;)
  • ryansholin · 1 year ago
    It might be bad PR, but if you don't try to protect your trademark, you lose it, more or less, yes? You occasionally hear Kevin Rose say something like "we hate doing this, but we have to" when Digg tries to shut down any site with d-i-g-g in the domain name. IANAL, etc.
  • Austin_Lawyer17 · 1 year ago
    The key to trademark infringement is whether there is confusion between the two marks. It seems clear from the screenshots provided in Jim Buckmaster's blog entry (link in article above) that this blogger clearly intended to breed confusion and profit from he real Craig's List brand. That said, this is a perfect example of why it is better to let lawyers handle trademark infringement letters. Craig's List in no Google but it is a $20 million a year a company and can afford to hire a good trademark lawyer.
  • Monty - Bay Area Lawyer · 1 year ago
    It is getting tougher and tougher for companies to protect their image online. I would think that any domain name with "craigslist" in it would be a violation of their trade mark. But, if craigslist does not have their name trademarked then they will have an up hill battle. you would think that they would have trademarked their name but from looking at their site they have not.
  • s. green · 4 months ago
    craiglist is huge now,and will get a good lawyer on this