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| ||bass Posts: 494/594 |
Originally posted by NSNickNot exactally. Though, if the name is being used enough by enough people to describe something, it can become what's called genericized. An example of this is the trademark on "Band-Aid" which is inching dangerously close to becoming genericized (and therefore invalid). Rule of thumb, if the majority of people don't think of you when your trademark is in use (assuming they know the trademark beforehand), you don't have much hope. |
| NSNick Posts: 1637/2228 |
Even then, wouldn't it likely do nothing, since the guy had registered those names before he would have gotten the trademark registered? |
| ||bass Posts: 492/594 |
I hope you can pay the $325 trademark registration processing fee. Without your trademark being registered, you don't have much of a shot at any meaningful success in most types of legal procedings. |
| Cynthia Posts: 4769/5814 |
Your fame would precede you and most people would know who you are by then anyways. (And in some cases, you'd just come out with your real name especially if the media picked up on it.) |
| asdf Posts: 3407/4077 |
Originally posted by Colin Perhaps if you became famous netwide for something you put out on the internet...but even then, that's no reason to go as far as trademarking . My username is probably even worse - but I don't care. There's really no reason to get your panties in a knot over one little imp. Oh, and something I forgot - there's the problem of getting the trademark to go through.  |
| Cynthia Posts: 4768/5814 |
But is it worth it? 
I mean, Rydain's nick is relatively unique but I don't think she'd go that far to protect it. |
| HyperHacker Posts: 3518/5072 |
I recall him saying he made it up based on his name backwards written Japanese style. Though it could easily have been made up by someone else. I remember when someone else joined this board(?) as "Hyper Hacker", fortunately didn't stick around long. He said he'd never seen me around before. Also, I certainly didn't know of any Macintosh hacking program by the same name when I made up mine.
Of course you might be able to use your name as the name of something you can copyright or trademark, and then go after him.  I doubt you'd have much luck registering the trademark after he uses it though. |
| Cynthia Posts: 4767/5814 |
And there's ALWAYS the possibility that someone might have actually thought up the name themselves and that it's total coincidence. Or that they thought the name was good. |
| Tatrion Posts: 2259/2467 |
Find out where he lives and set his house on fire.
... actually, that probably won't help you if you have a shred of morals. My name is totally unique, but every time I put it into google, this pops up...
The copyright is 2003, so that's before the first use of my use of Tatrion (about mid-2004). But. That guy uses "Tatrion" as a species of alien. I haven't actually read the story, but from scanning it, it is definatly a total coinsidence. However, the full name of the RP character (Tatrion Prenial) returns no google hits. It's probably too late for you to make an extension to your name though 
I kind of forgot where I was going with this... maybe it was "Goes to prove, if you think of anything, someone else has thought of it before"? I wish I could be more helpful with your problem, but I ended up just describing my funny junk. But I have to agree with the others; keeping up with the legalities of TM'ing a screen name probably isn't worth it, unless you plan to market it  |
| asdf Posts: 3401/4077 |
Well, that's still no reason to get caught in a loop about it. Some may have had the same idea as you. But in this case, you did probably piss some guy off (somehow), or someone decided to randomly be a dick. Like I said, let it go, and if anyone complains about your alleged doings on another website, explain the situation to him or her. Don't worry about it, they'll understand.  |
| Nebetsu Posts: 307/356 |
I actually made the name. It's not based on any anime and it was the name of a character for a story I was making a while back. It is completely original.
Urbandictionary, gentoo forums, digg, poetry critical, kingdom of loathing forums, dcemu, asexuality.org (don't ask), dsrevolution, zophar.net, linuxquestions.org, the petition to see if I should be ruler of the world, kororaa forums, macworld, scindex, postnuke, badbadrubberpiggy, ubuntu forums, chaoticworldnwn, spaces.msn.com, hostultra, stumbleupon, ddruk, anime cafe bulletin board, bioware forums, youthontherock, gp32x. Those are all me! And that's only the the first 6 pages! So yeah: It's mine and it's original. I'm just peeved that he took it for youtube. |
| Cynthia Posts: 4766/5814 |
I think "ignore it" is a little mild. More like "let it go, it isn't the end of the world". |
| asdf Posts: 3399/4077 |
The best way to deal with it is to ignore it. Personality patterns and your word against his (especially if you're calm about it) will suffice to protect yourself from random accusations of things you did not do. If anything, change your aliases and ignore it, as if nothing happened. Unless he's really out to get you, odds are he'll pay no attention or think he's won and move on (you may change back at a later point if needed). In reality, all you'll have done is a small change, which you may explain to those you trust and those who ask, when he's wasted time trying to ruin your rep, all for nil in the end. Besides, there are probably other Nebetsus out there. Don't worry about people stealing your alias - much less trademarking an alias. |
| Nebetsu Posts: 306/356 |
Originally posted by Colin Actually most of those 8790 matches are me, about me, or people pretending to be me. There's a few pages that has something to do with some mountain, but that's it. |
| Dr_Death16 Posts: 466/970 |
Originally posted by ShadicThe key words are "Oh well"... it does not matter at all who's "original" considering this guy is not the first person to create his "highly original" alias in the first place. So, unless Mr. Nebetsu accomplished something great over the internet while going by that alias and fears another getting credit for what he's done, I don't see any point in this whining. This is like having a fit over who started a fad or who started listening to a certain kind of music first before it became trendy. In such cases, chances are, no matter what you think, you aren't the original at all.Originally posted by Dr_Death16 |
| FreeDOS + Posts: 897/1312 |
Welcome to the downside of only going by an alias on the internet. |
| Shadic Posts: 412/528 |
Originally posted by Dr_Death16 Then it just makes it look like the other guy is the original. I have the same problem with my name.. I made it around 2002, and I've seen countless other Shadics out there. Oh well. |
| Dr_Death16 Posts: 464/970 |
Aren't you really helping him fulfill his purpose by caring if he takes the username or not? If you didn't care, he'd not have any reason to do it in the first place. I would suggest adding a 1 to the end or something and move on. |
| Metal Man88 Posts: 342/701 |
Eh. People can go ahead and steal my name, but nobody can imitate my insanity. Plus I have SEEKRIT POWERS. |
| Koitenshin +∞ Posts: 489/873 |
I can honestly say I am the only Koitenshin on dar interweb. Hows aboots you pay me money to type my screen name. (forced typos to reflect how stupid this topic is trying to trademark a screen name) |
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