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To: marcos who wrote (198)	11/7/2006 2:40:52 PM
From: stan_hughes	Respond to of 217

Sometimes with perceived trade name infringement situations (which this is/was) you can run into some super-anally retentive "my-dog-is-bigger-than-your-dog" lawyers that would just love a chance to duke it out with somebody (other than their wife). Remember when the WWF (i.e the World Wildlife Fund) kicked the butt of the World Wrestling Federation (fomerly also the WWF, now the WWE after losing in court)? I certainly do. I actually ran into this exact same sitation myself a few years back when one of the companies within our environmental engineering consulting group coincidentally had the same name as a bigshot medical supply company. The big shop apparently tripped over our name registration one day, which got their legal department all fired up -- you should have seen the pile of hellfire and brimstone threatening paper that soon arrived across my desk. Real heavy on the sabre rattling -- the "impugning our reputation", "egregious and unlawful" and "cease and desist" stuff -- I wish I'd kept some of that paper, it was actually pretty hilarious. Anyways, to make a long story short, we weren't really trading much on that corporation's name in particular and it certainly wasn't worth getting tied up in court about. Rather than waste a lot of my time fighting with Mr. Big Orifice, I decided that discretion was the better part of valor and agreed to change the name in exchange for a bit of cash