trademark

I was recently banned from eBay after 6 years of trading and 100% positive feedback. Does Amazon have similar seller compliance policies to eBay? Which marketplace is better for a seller with the *occasional* *unintentional* trademark violation? Thanks in advance for your thoughts :cool:

I want to buy a domain "Dirty Pineapple" that resembles a trademark "Dirty Pin". I want to promote a "Dirty Pin" product on "Dirty Pineapple" is this a problem ? Can the owner stop me from selling his product on my domain because the domain is similar, but different at the same time?

Hello fellow IM/SEOers A friend of mine and I have been coding a user-based review site, and realized about halfway through, we hadn't even thought about a potentially big legal issue. Most products (atleast within our niche, although without even looking it up I'm sure its true in most...

Take a BIG corporation, IE "Best Buy". Now, think of a domain, for our instances, we'll use "BestBuyClearance.com" If I purchase that domain, and build a site around it, what will happen? Will I get a C&D? Will I get sued for Trademark Infringement? Will I have to transfer the domain to...

Hi, a friend asked me for advice, but I have no knowledge regarding domains. She registered a - c-o-m domain - containing 5 letters - which is a trademark name - about 11 year old ago. Think of something like p-e-p-s-i :rolleyes: There was no contact at all with the company holding the...

Hi fellow white- and blackhatters, I want to ask if using a trademark like Apple or Sony in my domain name is legal? I've seen a ton of sites like "Sony46flatscreen", not owned by Sony (also mentioned in this forum several times. These sites are for instance promoting sony tv products with...

So after spending quite a bit of time setting up my new blog, i get rejected by amazon -_-. Who basically said they wont allow the domain name "iphone4deals.info" because of trademark. Which i can understand but now i need to get a new domain name and i'm clueless on what to choose. I'm...

Hello all... So I'm in a bit of a pickle. Turns out I may be sued for trademark infringment. My company name is very similar to another company name. Im not sure if im going to be sued for posetion of my website however? (Is that even possible?) Anyhow my question is this.... If I do lose...

Does the domain name i-ebay.com violate eBay's trademark? I know it has the word ebay in the title, but I really don't know much about domain name trademark infringement. Just wondering at what point the infringement begins as far as being able to use a trademarked name in a domain name. In...

Why do my content network ads get disapproved for having the word Wii in them, but when I do a search for "wii *games, downloads, etc*" there are over 20 ads all containing the word wii? I get the dreaded copyright for reason of disapproved ads. This is pissing me off!