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Originally Posted by Treebore  Which is why what I quoted, and bolded, is important. IF you want to actually be able to control and defend your IP then you better pay the $35 to register a full trademark. Otherwise your showing you don't care enough about controlling your idea and anyone else can run with it.
Without registration you can only defend it within your state, depending on the states laws. |
Guys, let it go. I'm an attorney, been one for almost 14 years, done tons of IP work in that time. It's not $35 to register a trademark (it's a whole lot more), that is not accurate that you lose protection outside your state if you don't federally register it (you still have common law protection for each location you sold into, which is the entire US for a product sold on the net like these were), and it's not just about patent.
All I was saying is that the POLITE (and smart) thing to do is to talk to the current IP owner to see if the actual line of Tac-Tiles could be continued under new hands.
Could someone do it without their permission? Sure, you probably could. But, the polite and likely smart thing to do is to do it with their cooperation, so that you can use the branded name, software and patterns, their distribution database, knowledge, etc..
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