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Re: Sunbeam trademark ownership

To: Stephen Waybright <gswaybright@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Sunbeam trademark ownership
From: Steve Laifman <SLaifman@socal.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 08:37:09 -0700
Stephen, and Tigers,

What do you mean "Web Squatters".  Just try looking at < 
http://www.SunbeamTigers.com >.  I think you might find it both familiar 
and amusing.

Any opinions on what should be done here?


Steve Laifman

Stephen Waybright wrote:

>Perhaps someone stumbled across the Tigers united site with the 2005
>Tiger concepts and sees a potential gold mine in one of them.  ;)
>http://www.tigersunited.com/articles/Tiger_2005/Tiger_2005-1.asp
>
>Of course it would be crazy to launch a car brand-named Sunbeam in the
>US these days. Far to many jokes relating to either bread or household
>appliances. It seems an odd thing to trademark, but could be an attempt
>like a URL squatter... grab rights to anything that anyone may try to
>use and then try to extort a big settlement to assign the rights over
>to them.
>I would think that the last owner of the brand would have some rights
>to reclaim. Who ended up with the Sunbeam brand anyway? I thought
>Chrysler sold it off.
>
>Stephen Waybright
>
>  
>

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