hdpt00 - 3:24 pm on Feb 2, 2006 (gmt 0)

Okay, so a nut calls me at 7am, wakes me up, and she knows I am in the same state, she knows the time. I don't answer because, hmmm, I'm sleeping after working 15 hours on my new startup.

This nutcase goes on to say (on the message) that I am advertising on her trademark. I wake up, go search USPTO and find no trademark. I email her saying I can't find a trademark, if you have one contact Google and I'm sure they'll deal with this appropriately.

Then she calls me again, realize this is still before 8am, and says she has a tradename (realize she sounds like a freaking nut case), no longer a trademark mind you, and it is a recognized name in the federal courts and that she will take me to court or small claims court (since we are in the same state she claims it is illegal) and get a "quick $5,000." Then, as a somewhat threat, she says she will make people aware of this.

I looked up online about her and apparently she is a nut, because other people have claimed the same thing. After her third message, still before 8am, I decided I'll just take her "tradenames" off my AdWords list for now, and see what other people think. I really doubt I'd get any traffic from this anyhow, so not worth it.

Anyhow, what would you do? I'm thinking of driving there and tell her to stop, but that is way too much effort and I need to work. On a side note, my AdWords ad was up for about 16 hours, most of it overnight. She sure was quick!

So if she has no trademark can I advertise for it? Can I advertise on her name and make a page about her to really tick her off?