My situation is similar to:
I registered a domain in March 2004. It is a generic 2 word domain with no previous trademark or common.
A company or a corporation forms a business –for the first time- under the same 2 names in this coming July 2005 and start using it in commerce.
Again, there is no trademark or common laws because the company or the corporation never existed before.
I do have an “LLC” associated with the name
The domain is similar to:
**City**Realty.com (This is only an example!)
The company that just got formed is indeed a “realty company”, so it may make sense.
However, my business is not a “realty** even though it has the word “realty” in it but instead is a charity and has nothing and never had anything to do with commercial business.
I have the .com .net & .org
They offered to buy the dot com but I said “no”
I know I can sell the dotCom and keep the .Org but I still said no, anyway!
Is there any problems you think I can run into?
Also can a trademark or a common law be used against you based on the present not the past? In another word, in my situation, they can not claim trademark rights or common law based on the past because they didn’t exist but can they claim these rights based on the present time? Event hough , I registered the domain a year before.
Appreciated!
I registered a domain in March 2004. It is a generic 2 word domain with no previous trademark or common.
A company or a corporation forms a business –for the first time- under the same 2 names in this coming July 2005 and start using it in commerce.
Again, there is no trademark or common laws because the company or the corporation never existed before.
I do have an “LLC” associated with the name
The domain is similar to:
**City**Realty.com (This is only an example!)
The company that just got formed is indeed a “realty company”, so it may make sense.
However, my business is not a “realty** even though it has the word “realty” in it but instead is a charity and has nothing and never had anything to do with commercial business.
I have the .com .net & .org
They offered to buy the dot com but I said “no”
I know I can sell the dotCom and keep the .Org but I still said no, anyway!
Is there any problems you think I can run into?
Also can a trademark or a common law be used against you based on the present not the past? In another word, in my situation, they can not claim trademark rights or common law based on the past because they didn’t exist but can they claim these rights based on the present time? Event hough , I registered the domain a year before.
Appreciated!
