The Greenguy Trademark Story
I think it was 1998 when I got a lawyer (good friend that I grew up with) and decided to trademark the word Greenguy. So he started doing some research & found out that the guy the owned greenguy.com had applied for the trademark the week before, and for the same thing I was going for (electronic magazine or something like that) However, it was not yet his & was in a status where if anyone wanted to object, they had 30 or 45 days or something to submit paperwork as to why they objected. I knew a lot of people in the biz by then, so my lawyer drafted up a blank affidavit (or something) that I had about 30 people that knew me as Greenguy sign & notarize. The trademark office had to have it in their hands by a Friday & I gave everything to my lawyer on Wednesday & he was going to send it in with some legal objection paperwork. But, instead of sending it overnight via UPS or Fed Ex, this fucking dummy sent it on Thursday via standard US Mail. About 2 weeks later, I recv'd a letter stating that my objection had not been recv'd before the deadline, and the trademark went thru
Needless to say, I never used him as my lawyer again & barely speak to him to this day.
OH! I also dropped $2k to WIPO trying to get linkorama.com which was also an adult links list that was almost EXACTLY like my site, but I got fucked on that, too:
http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/d...2001-1106.html
2015-03-24, 08:45 AM
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