MetaFilter posts tagged with ceaseanddesist

Oscar the Grouch

Horace Rumpole — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:54:15 -0800

AMPAS ankles Oscarwatch skein The Academy has brought the banhammer down on the Oscarwatch blog, issuing a demand that blogger Sasha Stone cease and desist from using the Oscar trademark in her domain name. Why now after 7 1/2 years of blogging under that name? Maybe because they found out about her whopping $20k yearly ad revenue.

Next thing you know, they'll be going after Boggle.

paulrockNJ — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:06:54 -0800

Adult search engine, Booble.com has received a cease and desist order from Google on the grounds of trademark infringement. Read Google's letter and Booble's response. all links are work safe.

chipr — Fri, 19 Apr 2002 16:28:14 -0800

From the little guy continues to get the shaft department: The United Parcel Service last month filed a trademark registration on "Big Brown." The ink on the app is barely dry, and already they are throwing out cease and desist letters. Victim number one: the guy who registered bigbrown.com back in 1997. (via fark)

PWA_BadBoy — Mon, 05 Jun 2000 12:58:11 -0800

Too funny... Napster has hit The Offspring with a cease-and-desist order after the band started selling merchanidise emblazened with the Napster logo. Boo Napster.

mathowie — Tue, 23 May 2000 10:07:18 -0800

Yet Another Domain Name Dispute Develops (YADNDD): chunkymunky.com gets a Cease & Desist from chunkymonkey.com. One is a windows software site, the other a fan site about a cartoon character. Is there any cause for confusion on the part of users wanting to visit either site (actually, one would have to misspell "monkey" in order to get to the windows site)? Should the chunkymunky.com site owner have taken down his/her site? Who is going to protect domain owners from future things like this happening?

ratbastard — Tue, 02 May 2000 08:01:46 -0800

I actually wouldn't mind seeing the plaintiffs behind this cease-and-desist order win their case.

mathowie — Wed, 22 Dec 1999 11:34:42 -0800

Here's the homepage of the guy that wrote the song "Bill Gates Must Die" which prompted Microsoft's legal team to send him a cease-and-desist letter