I have heard that it's best not to acknowledge receipt of such letters at all. Can anyone confirm or deny that?
-- Mike. On 6 December 2011 14:46, Roy Tennant <[email protected]> wrote: > I once got a "cease and desist" letter from a legal firm defending someone's > trademark for "metadata". I mean, seriously. Perhaps obviously, I ignored it. > It's still in my files somewhere. > Roy > > > > On Dec 6, 2011, at 6:31 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Ironically, I had (or there was) some trouble with the term >> "MyLibrary@NCState". Granted, the term was originally a variation of My >> Netscape, My Yahoo, and My Deja News, but all sorts of things followed it, >> like MyiLibrary, the Google Books My Library, and then there was a ALA >> thing. I'm not necessarily saying MyLibrary was the leader here, but an >> example of how trademarks (monikers) can be used, abused, and morphed. >> --Eric Morgan >
