Someone's Using My Brands!

I just tried to sign up with Aaron Wall via IM.

A username is required, so my first attempt was for iBrian. Sorry, not available.

Okay, no big deal. It was popular enough to see the .com registered.

So I tried platinax. Sorry, not available. Huh? Britecorp is my main business identity.

Platinax and Britecorp may not be registered as trademarks, but they are brands. And if people have been signing up to free services using my brand names, there is serious potential for confusion at best, and at worse - fraudulent representation which could seriously damage my brands, my reputation, my companies, and my business.

As I don’t at all want to see these damaged, it’s time to look seriously into registering global trademarks.

Luckily I recently visited this issue for a friend - Imran runs a company called Nominet’s solicitors before, asking to remove their logo from a news story from Platinax - which wasn’t a problem, as it was simply a news story.

But for Imran, using car manufacturer logos on his site is pretty fundamental to operations.

So I ran a search and came up with a company called Comments