- Location
- Retired in Minneapolis
My business was located in the Twin Cities, mostly the NW burbs of Minneapolis. For some reason I did a google on Canopy Tree Care and found a guy with the same name on the southern fringes of the metropolitan seven county area. When I called him and told him my name, not company name, there was silence for a second...to gulp...and then he said, uh, hello?! Sure made me believe he knew what he was up to. I got to the Point and said why are you using my business name. Again silence for a second while he was collecting his thoughts. He said when he started his business just a few years ago he looked at the state registration of business names. And found that I had let my name registration lape with the state.
As I think about it now I think I knew I had let it lapse and was going to re-register and did the Google search.
Without cursing hollering or threatening I told him in no uncertain terms that the name was mine and he had better not be coming into my area to use it or we’re going to end up in court. I told him that the courts don’t look favorably on the name poaching like that. Suicide run my business as canopy tree care since 1979 there could be a chance of very high likelihood of a large settlement in my favor.
Setting that aside I was pulling in a way a big bluff since I had actually let the name registration lapse but I think the courts to do take that into consideration.
Turns out in a year or so he disappeared so that settle that up and I kept up with my name registration.
Has anyone else had experience with named poaching within the area that is your work area?
How did you resolve the issue?
Something similar to this his domain names for the Internet. People buy a domain names and then sell them back to the person with that name for a substantial profit. You can bet Mark and I keep up with registering Treebuzz.com so we don’t have some poacher come in and try to extort the name back to us.
As I think about it now I think I knew I had let it lapse and was going to re-register and did the Google search.
Without cursing hollering or threatening I told him in no uncertain terms that the name was mine and he had better not be coming into my area to use it or we’re going to end up in court. I told him that the courts don’t look favorably on the name poaching like that. Suicide run my business as canopy tree care since 1979 there could be a chance of very high likelihood of a large settlement in my favor.
Setting that aside I was pulling in a way a big bluff since I had actually let the name registration lapse but I think the courts to do take that into consideration.
Turns out in a year or so he disappeared so that settle that up and I kept up with my name registration.
Has anyone else had experience with named poaching within the area that is your work area?
How did you resolve the issue?
Something similar to this his domain names for the Internet. People buy a domain names and then sell them back to the person with that name for a substantial profit. You can bet Mark and I keep up with registering Treebuzz.com so we don’t have some poacher come in and try to extort the name back to us.
