BOP News - Blog on Perfume News » perfumebay http://www.bopnews.org Blog about Perfume News Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:02:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Perfumebay.com Loses Trademark Infringement Case http://www.bopnews.org/perfumebaycom-loses-trademark-infringement-case/ http://www.bopnews.org/perfumebaycom-loses-trademark-infringement-case/#comments Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:45:38 +0000 The Big Bopper http://www.bopnews.org/perfumebaycom-loses-trademark-infringement-case/ File this one under wierd. Perfumebay.com have lost a court case with a giant website after they succesfully argued that “people would click on Perfumebay.com instead of their site, thus causing a loss of revenue.”

The website who beat perfumebay.com in court? eBay.

From TG Daily:

[The owner, Jacquelyn] Tran, admitted that she sometimes would capitalize the b in perfumeBay much in the same way the b in eBay is capitalized.  Tran told the court she did this because, “it was a common thing she saw online where companies would capitalize the first letter of the first word if they had separate words.”

We Say: We find this story preposterous. There’s now a law against capitalising letters and having company names sneakily hidden within other company names. I’m sure nobody in their right mind would get confused. Now I’m off to visit tesconamy.com!

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