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Someone Stole the Name of My Business
Someone has committed copyright infringement against my website. They said that they copyrighted my company's name, By Teens 4 Teens, and are going to sell it for $3500 to a magazine company.
He says that he's a lawyer and a website designer, although, I'm not sure if that's valid information or not, however, he has committed copyright infringement against myself and my company by using my company's name.
What should I do?
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**You can check with the US patent and trademark office. And you are probably right, I doubt he knows what he's talking about**
By Teens 4 Teens is a trademark, not a copyright. You don't have to register a copyright. You DO have to register a trademark, and if they have, you are out of luck. First to register gets the trademark, and the trademark lasts as long as their organization exists.
If you *have* registered it already, then you wait until they serve you papers or have done something to actually infringe your trademark (they haven't yet). Then you get a lawyer.
If you haven't registered it, and you suspect they haven't either, contact the US patent and trademark office to register your trademark.
(Note that registering your trademark isn't necessarily required, but you have no rights in this situation if it isn't.)
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Get your own lawyer and let them sort it out.
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