Stephen, and Tigers,
What do you mean "Web Squatters". Just try looking at <
http://www.SunbeamTigers.com >. I think you might find it both familiar
and amusing.
Any opinions on what should be done here?
Steve Laifman
Stephen Waybright wrote:
>Perhaps someone stumbled across the Tigers united site with the 2005
>Tiger concepts and sees a potential gold mine in one of them. ;)
>http://www.tigersunited.com/articles/Tiger_2005/Tiger_2005-1.asp
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>Of course it would be crazy to launch a car brand-named Sunbeam in the
>US these days. Far to many jokes relating to either bread or household
>appliances. It seems an odd thing to trademark, but could be an attempt
>like a URL squatter... grab rights to anything that anyone may try to
>use and then try to extort a big settlement to assign the rights over
>to them.
>I would think that the last owner of the brand would have some rights
>to reclaim. Who ended up with the Sunbeam brand anyway? I thought
>Chrysler sold it off.
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>Stephen Waybright
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