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POLYVINCI

GET TO KNOW THINGS

Tampa Bay's top online pop culture and renaissance publication.

Established October 15, 2008.

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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.

UPDATES : 06/04/23/0601/0619/0654/- 02/21/24/1125/ - 03/24/24/1010/1031/1102/

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