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LEGAL
NOTICE ABOUT THE “POLYVINCI” BRANDING.
Friday, September 29, 2023. 11:57 PM
We
will be continuing to use this branding, and will be using it on several
web sites.
Anyone using this branding does so without our permission, and we are
not associated with them.
They do not own our branding, do not control it, and are marketing and
building branding that will lead back to us (do a search for Polyvinci
right now if you don’t believe us. Do it).
We control this branding. We own it.
WE OWN IT.
YOU DON’T.
We own the Polyvinci branding, and can
prove first use, as indicated by our October 15, 2018 domain name (.Com)
registration.
We should own it. We created the word.
WE CREATED THE WORD.
When we did legal clearance checks in 2018, there were ZERO occurrences
of our word being used anywhere in the world.
We know. We checked. So should others.
WE DID PROPER LEGAL AND SEARCH ENGINE SEARCHES TO ESTABLISH
THAT THE BRANDING FOR OUR WORD WAS LEGALLY CLEAR. DID YOU?
01. The .Com domain name for the word was available. No other
domain name variants were taken, either, although it is our professional
opinion and our experience that the .Com domain name is the only variant
that matters (and it was still registered FIRST).
02.
It cleared a Trademark search on the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark
Office) database.
03.
There was no fictitious name or business named using our word in the Florida
SunBiz database.
04.
There was no usage of our word on ANY social media.
It
100% cleared.
If
we would have discovered anyone using our word, we would have respected
their intellectual property and not registered the domain name for it.
We would have found something else.
Since
then, and this is a very interesting coincidence, our word has been showing
up.
There have been people using it on freebie social media accounts. Someone
in Europe is using it for a business. Someone else registered it closer
to home as a business (be thankful that this is a web site publication
and we aren’t using it as business branding, or it would have caused
a strong legal response).
We do not see any way that anyone could have missed the fact that we established
it in 2018 and that we own it, especially with recent search engine results
for our branding word.
We certainly hope that no one saw our word, disrespected our ownership
of it, and decided to use it, regardless.
We have had experience with these issues before, they played out a certain
way, and it will happen, again.
DJ Frontier was a DJ name created by C. A. Passinault, the owner of this
site, back on February 25, 1993, and was registered as a .Com domain name
back on July 23, 2006.
Since that time, several people started registering it and using it on
freebie social media accounts. They were fully aware that we owned the
domain name and the branding. They were brazen and rude about it, at first,
but when they realized that they were building and marketing branding
that they did not own, that they could not control, and that they could
not make us give up because we were already using it and could prove first
use, they gave up.
Anyone using our branding DOES NOT CONTROL THE BRANDING, DOES
NOT OWN IT, and is MARKETING BRANDING THAT SOMEONE ELSE OWNS.
The fact that we did not register it as a Trademark makes no difference.
Again, we can prove first use, and no one can retroactively make us give
it up or stop using it.
Anyone doing any kind of search for this branding will find us, and there
is no way around this, especially as we own the domain name for it, and
will not give it up.
If anyone wishes to make this a legal issue, they are more than welcome
to, as we will fight for our rights. It is not our fault if people don’t
do proper checks.
Stop wasting time and energy. Trying to hijack out branding and make it
your own is futile, and will continue to be futile, diluting what you
are doing. Respect our rights and our branding. Find something else, and,
this time, do proper clearance checks.
Do the honorable thing. Be cool. Don’t be a jerk.
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Polyvinci.
Many Renaissance People. A Compendium of Knowledge.
A
publication of the Polyvinci Society.
For
information and entertainment use, only. Not advice, and should not be
taken as advice. Not legal advice or advice that should come from a licensed
or regulated professional. All site content consists of opinions and presented
as-is, with no warranties or guarantees expressed or given, unless otherwise
specifically stated. Content published on this web site may be the opinions
of the writer, and may not necessarily be shared by other authors on this
site or the owners of the Polyvinci online publication. Copyrighted material
published under fair use. Frontier Pop, Handheld Arcade, Deranged Fanboys,
Seeking Interesting People, Seeking Professionals, the Head Perspective,
Tampa Bay Pop Culture, Florida Pop Culture, DJ Frontier, DJ Wiz Kid, Tampa
Bay Video Games, Polyvincians, Cobra Kata, and Tampa Bay Cosplay are Polyvinci
web sites. Do not attempt anything described on this web site; readers
and users assume all risks and waive Polyvinci of all potential liability.
If you do not agree to waive this site from any potential liability over
the use of this site, you have the right to leave this site; usage of
this web site in any capacity binds the reader or user to this agreement.
Polyvinci
branding established October 15, 2018, when we created the word and invested
in the .Com domain name. We maintain the rights to our branding. We can
prove first use, and the branding belongs to us. We are not affiliated
with and do not endorse anyone or any other party or organization trying
to use our branding.
Site
designer, maintainer, logo designer, branding author, and editor C. A.
Passinault.
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