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Mispellings trademarked?

I think not!

         

roitracker

4:31 pm on Jun 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Disapproving misspellings as "trademarked terms" is ridiculous!

No-one has misspellings as a TM and the words don't appear in the ad, so what is Google playing at?

running scared

4:55 pm on Jun 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I guess the justification is that you are "passing off".

I can sympathise but how would you feel if it was your brand?

roitracker

5:51 pm on Jun 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

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In this case, the ad would have to contain the mis-spelled term to be seen as "potentially confusing" & considered as passing off. It doesn't.