Hi Sasha, I don't know if you have anything to worry about, really. Here is my experience with similar naming:
Citizen Desk in Wassau existed without ever hurting Citizen Space or creating any 'brand confusion'. And now there is a Citizen Space in Europe - no affiliation to ours. Do you have a US trademark on the name? If you do, can you prove that, thousands of miles from San Francisco a place called Sandbox Columbus (not the exact same name) will actually threaten your brand and confuse your customers? I doubt it would hold up in court. Sorry if I sound poo-poo on your concerns, but in the essence of openness in the community, we share ideas/names/information all of the time. We aren't in competition. Tara On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Sasha <[email protected]> wrote: > > We at Sandbox Suites in SF have recently learned of a space opening in > Columbus, Ohio that has chosen to name themselves "Sandbox Columbus". > They have already created a website and are planning to open in > March. > > We have tried to contact them but to no avail. Sandbox Suites has been > open since Oct. 2007 and we'll be expanding this month (in SF). > Obviously, another coworking space with such a similar name will > create brand confusion (despite the fact that they're far away). We do > not want anyone to ever think the Columbus space is associated with us > nor do we want to share any web indexing with that space. > > Given how small this community is, we don't want to go the legal > route, but may be forced to if the owners don't expain themselves or > change their name. > > What do you all think? I think this is the first time this issue came > up - hopefully, it's not a sign of what's ahead for this great > community... > > Sasha > > > > > -- tara 'missrogue' hunt Book: The Whuffie Factor (http://twurl.nl/qhe1l0) Company: Citizen Agency (http://citizenagency.com) Blog: HorsePigCow: Marketing Uncommon (http://horsepigcow.com) Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/missrogue phone: 415-694-1951 fax: 415-727-5335 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
