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Name Site millennial village threatened claim trademark
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The company Millennium & Copthorne International Limited (MCIL) in an official letter to уведомила organizing villagers Copthorne ( Copthorne i> - West Sussex, UK) the name Copthorne, which is used in a domain name Copthorne Village Association, violates the right to use a registered trademark. We are talking about a domain name copthornevillage.org , which used the site of the association. MCIL Lawyers argue that the site can be misleading Internet users and create a false belief that a company's website is something to do.
The case is notable for the fact that the Copthorne, which has a population of 5000 inhabitants, boasts a thousand-year history. The village was first mentioned in the & quot; Книге Doomsday & quot; More in 1086 and is a typical example of Old England, however, with paved roads, the airport and the ancient site . Company MCIL, which owns a chain of hotels across the world and 33th hotels in the title of which the word appears Copthorne opened here's another one. Group managers, responsible for protecting the company's brand, discovered the existence of the site copthornevillage.org and his administration announced that it & quot; ... could damage a trademark owned MCIL & quot ;.
The villagers decided not to let everything to the will of the lawyers of the company and they sent an indignant letter in which he convincingly described the 1000-year history of the village and that "the company could claim the title of Copthorne only through a time machine." As a result, management MCIL changed his mind about the possible legal action to transfer the domain name to the ownership of the company, and, as always in such cases, they say, has announced that a letter with claims in Copthorne sent by mistake.
The practice of protecting trademarks and copyrights companies often take at least a strange hue. So about two months ago music label demanded from Google to remove links to a long list of programs, including operating systems and browsers, on the grounds that with their help it was possible to download the audio file and listen to unknown group.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/249976/
