Re: [Harp-L] New URL to avoid legal problems

[David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This stuff went on before the internet, too. Back in the late 1990s, I wrote in my award-winning newspaper column once about freezing small game in ziploc bags. A year later, I got a letter from a lady named Marylyn Blood at Johnson and Johnson, the letter was enclosed in a Ziploc bag. The letter informed me that I had violated their trademark and was to use terms like "plastic resealable bags" from now on, or else. They had to have people in a bunker someplace scouring thousands of actual newspapers to catch this- our paper didn't even have email then, let alone an Internet edition.

Obligatory harp content. This is why you never see me use the term "Blues Harp" generically. It's trademarked.

David
www.elkriverharmonicas.com

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On May 2, 2012, at 9:05, Richard Sleigh <rharp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I had to change the URL for my link to info on my Lifetime Harmonica Combs.
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> Here is the new link: http://rsleigh.com/lifetimeharmonica-combs/
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> It turns out that the famous chemical company (the name rhymes with "blue font") that makes the comb material that I use on the black Lifetime Harmonica combs has a large legal department that is scanning the internet for any evidence of people improperly using their product names that are trademarked. If you cannot give them proof that you bought their stuff through their approved sources, they will sue you for not playing by their rules.
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> I was alerted to this by someone telling me they got a 4 page letter from the famous chemical company legal department for using the trademarked name without doing it right.
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> I can understand their point of view, but not their tactics.....
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> So rather than try to put a strain on my own personal legal department dealing with people who have no sense of humor, I am changing names but not the content of my combs.
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> So anyhow, if you want to check out the combs, which are now at a lower price thanks to relentless improvements in efficiency and design go here: 
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> http://rsleigh.com/lifetimeharmonica-combs/
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> Thanks!
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> Richard Sleigh
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> P.O. Box 23
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