Trademark Infringement Notice for a Parked Domain?!?

[TestCase]

As Roseanne Rosanadana was oft to say, "It's always something..."

This has just not been a very good holiday season. Along with many other things including finding out someone has recently TM'ed a domain I've had for about 2 years, I just received a Trademark Infringement Notice for a domain name that is parked. HUH?!?!?...

The domain name itself is fine and is parked. It's the fact that this group's trademark is appearing as part of one of the links generated on the main page.

Any suggestions on what my course of action/response should be?

 

[TestCase]

Thanks for your participation in this thread Mr Berryhill.

From what I can gather, either the question hasn't been asked very clearly (<-- Could be, wouldn't be the first time. Not sure how to explain it any better, but willing to try. ), and it certainly hasn't been understood.

I guessing here - but I understand that the letter doesn't relate to the relationship between the domain name and the advertising (<-- CORRECT ); but that instead the complaint relates to one of the advertisements in particular... But what I gather you to be saying is that the TM owner is complaining that one of the PPC advertisers is an infringer.( <-- Not Quite )

The issue is not with a specific ad, but with one of the parking system's auto-generated "Links/Categories/Related Search Terms".

See attached example in hopes that it might clarify things.

Where, in this example, one of these "Links/Categories/Related Search Terms" is "Loans", the analogous display in my situation would have been, " 'ABCXYZ' Loans " (where 'ABCXYZ' is the complainant's TM).

Disclaimer - The domain shown in the example is not my domain nor is Sedo the parking service my domain was on. I am using it purely as an example, though it is about as close to my domain name as it can be without actually being the domain name in question.

 

[Dave_Z]

but I understand that the letter doesn't relate to the relationship between the domain name and the advertising

I'm rather surprised (?) the letter doesn't demand turning the domain name to
them. But hey, that's a good thing, right? :D

Well, hopefully anyway...knock on wood...

 

[goodkarmaco]

You cannot get better advice than from a domain lawyer.

Thank you Mr. Berryhill.

 

[TestCase]

I'm rather surprised (?) the letter doesn't demand turning the domain name to
them. But hey, that's a good thing, right? :D

Well, hopefully anyway...knock on wood...

Aaaamen!!