RESEARCH TWO Responds To (AP) Ogdensburg Article
FREDERIC REMINGTON
re: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
219 U.S. COURTHOUSE
100 S. Clinton Street
P.O. Box 7396
Syracuse, New York
13261-7396
CASE NUMBER: 7:08-CV-109
NY MUSEUM SAYS INDIANA COMPANY MISUSING REMINGTON NAME
Story Created: Feb 5, 2008 at 2:39 PM EDT
OGDENSBURG, N.Y. (AP) — An Indiana company is misleading the public about who has the rights to use the name of 19th century artist Frederic Remington, a federal lawsuit claims.
The lawsuit was filed by The Frederic Remington Art Museum.
It seeks to stop Gregory Shideler of Fort Wayne, Ind., from using the name Frederic Remington Art Museum Foundation on his Web site and literature. It also seeks cancellation of federal trademarks previously issued to the man and the Frederic Remington Trust 1861 LCC.
The Ogdensburg museum also wants a declaration that it can continue using Remington's name despite whatever trademark rights Shideler does hold, the museum's attorney, Edward Conan, said Tuesday.
The lawsuit accused Shideler of engaging in "a wide-ranging scheme of trademark abuse and misuse" that has caused "confusion and harm" to the museum's reputation and standing.
Shideler did not immediately return an e-mail seeking his comment. There was no telephone listing for him in the Fort Wayne area.
Born in 1861 in Canton, N.Y., and raised in Ogdensburg, Remington was an illustrator, sculptor and journalist whose depictions of cowboys and Indians helped burnish the legend of the wild West. His artwork remains widely exhibited today, with pieces on display from the White House to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The museum, originally founded as the Remington Art Memorial in 1923, is located in the home where Remington's wife lived after his death in 1909. It possess a comprehensive collection of original Remington art pieces, personal effects and correspondence.
Shideler's trust acquired a federal trademark in 1995 for the use of the name Frederic Remington on a variety of products, including eyeglasses, carbonated apple cider, umbrellas, cologne, clothing and cigarette cases, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Syracuse on Jan. 29.
In 2005, the trust trademarked the artist's name for the custom manufacture of two- and four-passenger horse-drawn sleighs with patent leather harnesses, brass sleigh bells, buffalo hide interiors and bison cape comforters.
In 2006, the company obtained a trademark for the Remington name for bronze sculptures.
Conan said Shideler has previously threatened legal action against the museum in an attempt to get it to stop offering what he claimed were unauthorized reproductions of Remington's work. Instead, the museum initiated legal action.
"He's made extravagant and insupportable claims about whatever rights he may or may not have. We felt some step had to be taken to get clarification and resolution," Conan said.
According to court documents, the trust has variously represented itself as a "Foreign Private Trust" with a mailing address in Mexico, or as a limited liability company with addresses in Fort Wayne.
Conan said Shideler's use of the Frederic Remington name has been problematic for the museum.
The lawsuit said the museum has been contacted by a tax review board in Indiana because of confusion over the foundation's name. It has also been contacted by law enforcement officials investigating a tax refund scheme in which refunds were being directed to the Frederic Remington Art Museum Foundation at an address for an inmate in an Arizona prison.
The trademarking of bronze statues by the trust is especially troubling for the museum, Conan said. Last year, the museum negotiated a partnership with J.W. Hulme Co. for an offering of a "Frederic Remington Art Museum Collection" of merchandise in the Hulme catalog.
The trust allegedly sent Hulme a "cease and desist demand" accusing the company of infringing on its trademark.
"Resolving this will allow us to give some assurance to potential partners with us that they can use Frederic Remington or the bronze statues and they don't have to worry that they are going to get sued or harassed for violating a trademark," Conan said.
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On the Net:
Frederic Remington Art Museum: http://www.fredericremington.org
Frederic Remington Trust 1861: http://www.remingtonart.org
RESEARCH TWO (AP): Verified Investigative Results RE: Unverified Ogdensburg Article Claims
RE: Northern District Court in 7:08CV-109
RESEARCH SUBJECT PREFACE: A New York Museum seeks to escape federal criminal indictments by ducking into a local federal court asking for forgiveness for its multitude of sins; including but not limited to its knowing name change from Remington to that of Frederic Remington® - (See New York State public records), a federal registered famous Mark belonging to a Trust whose “exclusive right to use” famous trademark is duly registered in United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), upon the Principal Register, (See United States Patent & Trademark Rules). Indictments would likely involve the museum's unlicensed/unauthorized use of a United States registered famous Mark (Frederic Remington®) in violation of the laws of the United States. Potentially to include documented museum violations of its charter, and federal 501 c (3) “not-for-profit” tax exempt status. For its staff and directors operating a “for profit” criminal enterprise. A criminal enterprise engaged in counterfeit intellectual property rights BRANDING of goods, trafficking those counterfeit goods via US Mail and the internet, (Under NEW 18 USC 2320 felony acts). It is documented the Museum solicited others to become co-conspirators in the museum’s criminal counterfeit licensing businesses according to east coast FBI, and museum’s own filed complaint . Per FBI the museum knowingly changed its collective corporate, foundation, and domain names to that of the federal registered famous Mark owned by the Trust. This was done to further the museum’s criminal counterfeiting enterprise and to confuse the public as to the “source” of lawful Frederic Remington® BRANDED goods. The museum is engaged in illegal licensing out of the Trust’s exclusive famous trademark BRAND to others for mugs, spoons, apparel, luggage, harmonicas, etc. The museum once indicted has no one to blame but its own criminal enterprise operations for its woes, according to sources close to the museum. The museum’s use of the famous federal registered intellectual property rights (IPR) of the Trust for money, (felony conversion) violates the laws of the United States. Indictments may well result in the museum director and other key players all facing the mandatory 5 years in prison, with the museum entity made to suffer the mandatory federal prosecution incentive fine of $2 million dollars for a “first offense” under NEW § 18 USC 2320 anti-trademark counterfeiting law. Museum counsel Ed Conan’s lawsuit exposes New York Senator James Wright. Senator Wright may be dragged into the fray as he is personally responsible for funding from state tax coffers the museum’s criminal IP counterfeiting enterprise to the tune of $150,000 dollars per occurrence, (“furthering a criminal enterprise”). Additionally, the museum is now caught in felony cyber squatting the famous Mark, Frederic Remington® as well. The museum changing from its domain www.remingtonartmemorial.org to the Trust’s domain www.fredericremington.org., thereby denying the Trust use of its rightful registered trademark domain name, (FBI sources). Per its own published website the Museum is no newcomer to such nefarious bad acts. (See its self-authored self-documented acts and admissions). Detailing museum’s checkered past spanning its first 40 years in existence. During which posing as a museum protector it was in actuality selling off "for personal profit" its entire collection of original Frederic Remington works (an admitted to number being 452 originals in one transaction alone- i.e., “an entire collection”), (another being the museum gift shop dumping even more Frederic Remington originals at .75 cents to $1.00 dollar each). The sales and illicit gain there-from shocking to the nation's museum community, a violation of museum mandate, today a charter violation. In recent years the museum apparently low on originals began its criminal enterprise operations; that criminal enterprise today stands detected and those responsible face potential criminal indictments. Museum attorney Ed Conan’s hail Mary lawsuit to attempt an end run around the laws of the United States, and New York State criminal anti-trademark-counterfeiting statutes may not be enough to keep museum staff trademark counterfeiting king pins and cohorts from prison, $2 million dollars fines each for the museum, and restitution to the exclusive owner of the famous Mark, Frederic Remington® - the Trust.
Other cyber crimes in this case apply as well, such as the museum "offering" counterfeit Frederic Remington® BRANDED goods via the Internet. Felony “Offering” counterfeit BRANDED Frederic Remington® goods via the U.S. Mail (“mail fraud”). Accepting payment for the illegal goods via wire transfer of funds, (“wire fraud”). Soliciting others to counterfeit/traffic Frederic Remington® BRANDED goods, (“solicitation”). Attorney Conan’s filed complaint referenced museum counterfeiting "partners," i.e., museum co-conspirators, (“conspiracy to counterfeit”). Conspiring to take by “theft and deception” proprietary Frederic Remington® Trust digital BRANDING files and clients (“licensees”). Museum co-conspired theft of the Trust interests' federal copyright design sketches for luxury products included. Museum use of those design sketches and stolen proprietary digital BRANDING files, with the copyright design sketches utilized by the conspirators in producing a sundry of counterfeit BRANDED Frederic Remington® goods. Conan names one of the museum’s criminal enterprise manufacturers; co-conspirator J W Hulme Co. The Museum’s complaint implicates J W Hulme Co., owned by a certain Chuck "Charles" Bidwell and Jeniffer Guarano, per authorities. Federal authorities documented proof Hulme/Bidwell/Gurano were under serious Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Confidentiality and Non Disclosure Agreement (CDA) to Trust interests’ during Bidwell and museum's conspired guise as a to be established Frederic Remington® licensed NEWCO partner. HulmeCo/Bidwell/Gurano engaged IP Owner interests in a 9 month long faux negotiation to “further a conspired criminal enterprise.” Per Midwest FBI/ICE, the co-conspirators intent was to extract as much proprietary property, design, business method and trade-dress as possible from the Trust interests by theft and deception. Meaning proprietary business methods in the form of digital BRANDING files, product designs, catalog layout design proven formats i.e., trade-dress, Frederic Remington IPR Owner interests' know how and marketing concepts.
The museum and its lawyer Conan brought a lawsuit to cover-up what in good faith the IPR Owner interests were deceptively mislead to believe were legitimate negotiations. Negotiations to develop under contracted confidentially a Frederic Remington® lawfully licensed- legally BRANDED and copyright designed luxury goods campaign. With J W Hulme Co. as IPR Owner interests’ lawful licensee, partner and US based manufacturer. Especially spurious is the museum and Hulme Cos' torturous interference claim, when it is they (the conspirators) committing torturous interference by changes of name, counterfeiting, trafficking, mail fraud, wire fraud and cyber crimes. Conspired acts meant to interfere with the commerce of the registered Marks, and the lawful trademark owners “exclusive right to use” famous Mark BRAND. Then there is the conspirators torturous business interference with the famous Marks law abiding legitimate licensees, who pay license royalties for their lawful-authorized-licensed "use" of the famous Marks to the IPR Owner interests. Then there is the conspirators torturous interference with both potential as well as actual clients of the registered Mark owner. The museum has caused losses in excess of $12 million dollars to the IPR Owner Trust interests in less than 24 months, given the museum’s $3 million dollar balance sheet it appears as the criminal prosecutions catch up with the Museum, Conan, and Hulme there may be little or nothing left when the feds are finished with them, (Under NEW § 18 USC 2320). Further, museum in its complaint “stipulates to” torturous misleading of potential IPR Owner licensees "lured" to the museum. Lured by the museum posing as the registered Mark (Frederic Remington®) owner. Posing not just in Ogdensburg-geographically, but knowingly to the world via the Internet.
Synopsis: The museum for the purpose of luring and confusion as to the source of Frederic Remington® BRAND goods, did knowingly change its name and domain name to that of the Trust's famous Mark Frederic Remington® expressly for this purpose of furthering a criminal enterprise and to hurt the IP Owner, (FBI sources say). The museum by changing its name and cyber squatting the famous Mark’s domain name (a felony) has willfully inflicted upon the lawful Frederic Remington® registered Mark owner; torturous interference in commerce, tortuous business interference, loss of revenues into the millions of dollars, a single business opportunity (lost License) front load of $4 million in 2006' alone, an earlier incident cost the Trust interests $8 million dollars in license royalties, public confusion as to the source of Frederic Remington® legitimate lawful licensee’s goods, loss of NEWCO partners, and U.S. based Frederic Remington® goods manufacturers. The museum by posing as the Frederic Remington® IPR Owner (by name change, and domain squatting) – is engaging in luring away potential Trust interests’ licensees, misdirecting wishful licensees and actively dissuading wishful licensees as to the Trust's ownership of Frederic Remington® in willful attempt at conspired dilution of the famous Mark BRAND. The museum is in violation of the laws of the United States by illegally importing and trafficking every manner of Chinese counterfeit Frederic Remington® BRANDED import junk for museum felony ‘offering” (trafficking) operations. Criminal operations for illicit monetary gain. The museum associated big city gang counterfeiting of the BRAND, in the aftermath of 911 is grave cause for alarm. Counterfeit BRANDED goods having been linked by law enforcement to organized crime funding, terrorist events funding internationally, and directly to the funding of 911 in this country. A $250 billion dollar industry in the US alone, $600 billion worldwide. The museum’s own course in furthering its checkered past may prove to be 2008’s headline criminal trademark counterfeiting/trafficking prosecution.
ResearchTwo finds: Under the verified facts. It would appear under NEW 18 USC 2320, America’s anti trademark and copyright counterfeiting law effected March 16, 2006. This museum counterfeiter case is the case to criminally prosecute. It would appear headline example should be made of this museum, its cronies and all others like them for felony trademark counterfeiting and trafficking an IP Owners BRAND and exclusive rights, (See Presidential declared trademark and copyright counterfeiting epidemic, with Congressman Knollenberg sponsor of NEW 18 USC 2320, and IPR enforcement Senators on the Hill, Bayh, and Voinovich concurring).
The acts were facilitated by museum directors and staff (felony trademark counterfeiters) having intentionally misused the word "museum," to garner an edge of faux respectability over that of a lawful United States Intellectual Property Rights Owner. The museum adding the word “museum” in behind the museum’s illegal name change to that of the lawful IP Owner’s famous trademark Frederic Remington® naturally made it appear the “source” for Frederic Remington® famous Mark goods. Such acts of clear specific criminal intent infringement of a famous Mark, also used in counterfeit BRANDING of goods which the museum staff and cronies then sell for illicit gains is felony trademark counterfeiting. Such acts are clearly meant to facilitate museum torturous business interference upon the IP Owner Trust, to intercept the IP Owner’s potential business opportunities, to obtain by fraud, theft and deception another’s proprietary trade secrets and property, to convert exclusive IP Owner rights, to dilute exclusive IP Owner rights, and is meant to confuse the public as to the (rightful) source for Frederic Remington® BRANDED goods. Clearly the museum’s acts are specific in intent, meant to felony convert an IPR Owner’s exclusive IP rights for money, to further a “criminal enterprise.” Such acts demand vigorous criminal prosecution, asset forfeiture, fines, imprisonment for staff and restitution to the IPR Owner. The museum staff (trademark counterfeiters) further misuse of the word “museum” in publicity (advertising) of museum counterfeited goods. This confuses the public as to source of legitimate goods. To change one’s name to facilitate such criminal enterprise, to facilitate felony “offer’ of counterfeit branded goods through the internet, the U.S. Mail, to accept Wired payment for the illegal goods, or to import the same counterfeit goods, constitutes multiple felony acts. In this case museum director Ed La Varnway and museum staff’s criminal enterprise is funded by New York tax dollars appropriated by New York Senator James Wright and elected for the museum. The Conan/museum complaint shows the criminal enterprise is both condoned and encouraged by legal counsel for the counterfeiters and co-conspirators Ed Conan of Syracuse, New York, who brought frivolous action in a New York court without jurisdiction it appears, errantly hoping to escape the inevitable, authorities say.
RESEARCH TWO: Investigative Report June 02, 2008
United States law makes it a felony to mis-spell a registered name.
LAW
New United States law for INTERNET SEARCH ENGINE COMPANIES makes it a felony to counterfeit and traffic in mis-spelled registered trademark names/words as "keyword" identifiers (i.e., to license or charge fees for the use another's registered Trademark) famous trademark or common law trademark to "lure" the public to one's site.
(See trademark case: Playboy vs. Playboy.net , c. 1999, 9th Cir Ct Appeals).
The new law addresses the practice of "offering" for money key words (even misspelled) that are the intellectual property famous registered trademarks of others. Key words such as Rolex are "offered" to unauthorized-unlicensed others to increase wrongfully unsuspecting traffic to their sites. An example being the sale of the registered trademark Polo as a key word to porn sites.
To sell as a key word to a non-owner of the famous trademarks such as Frederick Remington® or Harley Davidson® violates the laws of the United States. Another abused key word IMG is short for IMG world; IMG is the largest purveyor of Intellectual Property in the world today - sports to fashion, for representation IMG. See IMG.com.
Harley Davidson, is another American iconic famous registered trademark BRAND for motorcycles just as Frederic Remington is for art, people literally tattoo the Harley Davidson
BRAND on their bodies. See Harley Davidson.com. The same key word abuse is true for Prada, Prada means handbags,
but Prada licensing BRANDS many products. Counterfeiters buy the famous trademark BRAND key word searches to"lure" buyers. See Prada.com.
Fendi is another illegally "offered" key word, Fendi is infamous among women as Fendi is perceived as chic. Again counterfeiters seek out such key word search BRANDS. See Fendi.com. Two of the hottest key words "offered" by search engine sellers being
Polo and Gucci, Polo and Gucci the fashion BRANDS; Polo and Gucci have created a Polo and Gucci mania worldwide.
See Gucci.com. See Polo.com
Wrangler Levis is another American duo, Wrangler Levis are famous trademark BRANDS, Wrangler Levis are key word sold to clothing category sites and counterfeiters. Research courtesy of AP, the Associated Press goes by AP, AP Wire Service, etc.
AP has become an industry symbol See AP.com.
LAW
New United States law makes it a felony for INTERNET DOMAIN REGISTRAR COMPANIES
to counterfeit federal registered famous Trademarks as domain names.
A domain name is a "product." A registration of a domain by a Registrar Company (LICENSOR) for fees is a "license"
to use that domain name. A domain purchaser is a LICENSEE.
A Domain Registrar Company engaging in the registering/licensing to end users or domain resellers of a federal registered Trademark belonging to another is a felony. The act(s) carry mandatory 5 years incarceration, $2 million dollar federal prosecution fine per occurrence, with mandatory asset forfeiture to satisfy restitution requirements to the Trademark owner.
Second offense is 15-20 year mandatory incarceration.
A federal registered trademark is the exclusive intellectual property of the principal registered trademark owner.
The registered famous federal trademark owner enjoys by federal rule and law"the exclusive right to use," its famous trademark on goods, packaging, advertising, and publicity. No other may use a registered famous trademark except under contractual licensed authority obtained from the registered owner of the Trademark, (or its lawfully authorized interests, LICENSOR) for a specific use as defined within the contact license issued to the other, (LICENSEE).
TRADEMARK DOMAIN EXAMPLES
1) eBay®.com; eBay.com, See pages.ebay.ca/help/community/tm.html... eBay owns exclusive trademark rights in the eBay name en.
2) Wikipedia®; wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:EBay_Logo.svg - 21k Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikipedia -Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.,
3) Remington®; Remington is a registered trademark of Remington Arms Co ... See Remington trademark at www.tandsshellcatcher.com/prod04.htm, www.Remington.com
4) Hells Angels®; HELLS ANGELS and the skull logo® are trademarks owned by Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporation, registered in the USA and in many other countries. See All Hell's Angels logos ...
www.hells-angels.com/ - 20k - Cached - Similar pages
5) Frederic Remington®: is a registered trademark and intellectual property of the Frederic Remington Trust 1861, owner of the exclusive trademark rights in the Frederic Remington name.
TRADEMARK LAW
New criminal law 18 USC 2320, United States anti-trademark and copyright counterfeiting law. This law carries a mandatory 5 year prison term first offense for individuals, 15 years if committed by an entity, 20 years for second offenses, a $2 million dollar federal prosecution fine, and restitution to the victim. Congress passed "the fine" segment in the law as an incentive to all United States Attorney Offices (USAO's) to vigorously and severely prosecute individuals, fictitious entities and the heads of those companies for violating this and any other trademark or copyright associated criminal laws of the United States. Asset forfeitures are part and parcel prosecution tools under this law, meant to repatriate ill-gotten gains and to satisfy restitution pay orders for damages to the Trademark and or Copyright owner victims. NEW 18 USC 2320, is the law governing Trademark cyber crimes. Such as individuals using counterfeit BRANDED domain names in furtherance of a business enterprise, furtherance of a criminal enterprise, or merely to "lure" visitors to their sites by using another's trademark BRAND recognition and goodwill. This applies to the companies trafficking or "offering those counterfeit BRANDED domain names as well; Domain Registrars and or Resellers.
This NEW law governs Domain Registrar Companies, i.e., companies selling/registering trademark domain names.
Typically a felony takes place when a Domain Registrar registers a federal registered trademark to a non-owner of that registered Trademark, for royalty fees. See laws on felony conversion of a federal trademark for money. The law also applies to any Domain Registrar or its end user utilizing a derivative, prefixed, or suffixed use of another's federal registered trademark, to include misspells thereof; prefixed, suffixed, or not. The unauthorized Domain Registrar Company's registration of a federal registered trademark as a domain b to another, without the Trademark owner's licensed authorization is a felony. To license from and use such trademark from a Domain Registrar Company is a felony. The counterfeit domain process begins like this. A Domain registrar first counterfeit trademark BRANDs it's product. "Product" in the case of a Domain Registrar Company is a "domain name." For purposes of a felony act, that "product" (domain name) must consist of a federal registered trademark owned by some other.
Secondly, the Domain Registrar Companies "Offers" its counterfeit BRANDED federal registered famous trademark domain names in multiples to multiple non-trademark-owner endusers. Under the law "Offering" a domain name or multiples of another's federal registered trademark as domain names constitutes multiple felony counts. Third, Domain Registrar Companies are collecting a royalty fee for the federal registered trademark domain name (unauthorized license fees), felony conversion). Collecting those illicit royalty fees by wire (credit card) is a felony act, (wire fraud). Further, U. S. Mailed -- Domain Registrar Company solicitation brochures, flyers, or postcard promotions "offering" to register or sell or re-sell or pre-sell counterfeit domains names consisting of a registered federal trademark of another under the law constitutes crimes of felony "offering" and "solicitation to traffic," and is an additional felony(mail fraud). Such Domain Registrar Company acts as explained, constitute multiple or collective felony acts in counterfeiting a federal registered famous trademark, that lawfully belongs to another. Domain Registrar Companies today are "counterfeit BRANDING their domain name product" then "offering," and "trafficking" those counterfeit trademark BRANDED products, (goods or services).
A federal registered trademark is the exclusive intellectual property of the registered trademark owner. The registered famous federal trademark owner enjoys by federal rule and law "the exclusive right to use" its famous trademark on goods, packaging, advertising, and publicity. No other may use a registered famous trademark except under licensed authority for specific use, issued under verifiable contractual license duly obtained by the wishful party from the registered trademark owner,
(or its lawfully authorized LICENSOR of interest).
The unauthorized Domain Registrar Companies under the law are illegally licensing out counterfeit BRANDED domain names to non-trademark owners. Such ongoing acts constitute a "criminal enterprise." Under the law the Registrar Companies are operating as an unlawful unauthorized LICENSOR for the Trademark BRAND domain names it is licensing out for money. Licensing out in violation of the current laws of the United States. Such acts are felony acts since 1995 and even stricter law applies from March 16, 2006. It is not only the Domain Registrar who is committing felony acts, the counterfeit trademark domain Resellers and "end users" constitute unlawful LICENSEES, and are not deemed innocent under the criminal or civil law, and are subject to felony indictment and prosecution. Much as the Registrar Company (its executives as in Enron) themselves are subject to criminal felony The new law addresses the practice of "offering" for money key words (even misspelled) that are the intellectual property famous registered trademarks of others. Key words such as Rolex are "offered" to unauthorized-unlicensed others to increase wrongfully unsuspecting
traffic to their sites. An example being the sale of the registered trademark Polo as a key word to porn sites.
To sell as a key word to a non-owner of the famous trademarks such as Frederick Remington® or Harley Davidson® violates the laws of the United States. Another abused key word IMG is short for IMG world; IMG is the largest purveyor of Intellectual Property in the world today - sports to fashion, for representation IMG. See IMG.com. Harley Davidson, is another American iconic famous registered trademark BRAND for motorcycles just as Frederic Remington is for art, people literally tattoo the Harley Davidson BRAND on their bodies. See Harley Davidson.com.
The same key word abuse is true for Prada, Prada means handbags, but Prada licensing BRANDS many products. Counterfeiters buy the famous trademark BRAND key word searches to"lure" buyers. See Prada.com. Fendi is another illegally "offered" key word,
Fendi is infamous among women as Fendi is perceived as chic. Again counterfeiters seek out such key word search BRANDS. See Fendi.com. Two of the hottest key words "offered" by search engine sellers being Polo and Gucci, Polo and Gucci the fashion BRANDS; Polo and Gucci have created a Polo and Gucci mania worldwide. See Gucci.com. See Polo.com.
Wrangler Levis is another American duo, Wrangler Levis are famous trademark BRANDS, Wrangler Levis are key word sold to clothing category sites and counterfeiters. Research courtesy of AP, the Associated Press goes by AP, AP Wire Service,
etc. AP has become an industry symbol See AP.com prosecution. Generally both the Registrar (domain LICENSOR) and its user (domain LICENSEE) knowingly operate in concert for mutual benefit, collectively using another's a federal registered trademark for gain is a felony, (conspiracy). Because the act involves two or more both parties often face the prosecution's favorite charge of "conspiracy" to commit the crimes. See "conspiracy charge," deemed the indefensible charge when two parties are involved in the commission of a crime. In the case of counterfeit BRANDED Domains both seller and buyer had knowledge neither owned the trademark domain name involved in the exchange, under the law even as far back as 1995 knowledge the trademark was registered was not required to justify a criminal charge of counterfeiting.
Trademark counterfeiting, offering, trafficking, solicitation, and conspiracy to commit, all carry severe incarceration penalties each. Mail fraud and wire fraud involved in the committing of trademark crimes, and related cyber crimes all carry severe incarceration penalties each. Counterfeiting or trafficking ("offering") each carry a 5 year mandatory first offense incarceration in a federal penitentiary for individuals, 15 years for corporate, with 20 year sentences for second offense; in each case, a $2 million dollar fine goes to the federal authorities as an incentive. Incentive for the severe prosecution of all offenders by federal authorities, and to ensure prosecution of the "end user" (the willing unlawful LICENSEE) as vigorously and severely as the Domain Registrar Company (the counterfeit LICENSOR) both using the trademark or copyright for mutual gain and benefit. The wishful unscrupulous domain name requesting LICENSEE already knows what the Trademark domain name will do for his/her business, therefore the act is also willful. Such acts by Registrar and end-users constitute illegal use of a famous trademark when they "illegally use" by buying or selling famous federal principal registered trademark domains such as Frederic Remington®; Frederic Remington, Rolex, Playboy, or Remington in illegally registered domain exactness or variations thereof - often prefixed, suffixed or misspelled, to include prefixed or suffixed misspells of such registered famous trademarks as well. EXAMPLES; unauthorized domain use such as www.frederic remington.org, fredric remington.org frederic remington.net, fredric remington.net, fredric remington.com or frederic remington.com by some other than the trademark owner is counterfeit trademark cyber squatting. Cyber squatting is a felony. The same applies to misspells such as www.frederick remington, fredric remington, fredrick remington, frederick remmington, frederic remmington, fredric remmington, fredrick remmington, etc. The same applies to Rolex®; Rolex.com, Rolex.net, Rolex.org, Rolex.uk, Rolex.biz, Rolex.au or Remington®; Remington.com, Remington.net, Remington.org, Remington.uk, Remington.biz, or Playboy.com, Playboy.net, Playboy.org, Playboy.uk, Playboy.biz, etc. Even Broncho Buster®; Broncho Buster.net Broncho Buster.com, Broncho Buster.org, Broncho Buster.au, Broncho Buster.uk, Bronco Buster.com, Broncho Buster.net, Bronco Buster.org, Bronco Buster.au; Forbes.com, Forbes.net, Forbes.au, Forbes.uk, Forbes.org; Syracuse.com, Syracuse.ner, Syracuse.au, Syracuse.org, Syracuse.uk, Syracuse.biz, Syracuse.gov; journalgazette.net, journalgazette.org, journalgazette.au, journalgazette.com, journalgazette.uk, journalgazette.biz, journalgazette.gov; enjoymuseums.com, enjoymuseums.org, enjoymuseums.net; watertowndailytimes.com, watertowndailytimes.biz, watertown daily times.net, watertown daily times.au, watertown daily times.org, watertown daily times.uk, watertowndailytimes.gov; ap.org, ap.net, ap.com, ap.gov, ap.uk, ap.au; william kates. , william kates.com, william kates.net, william kates.uk, william kates.au, william kates.gov, william kates.org, william kates.biz; auburnpub.com, auburnpub.com, auburnpub.museum, auburnpub.biz, auburnpub.org, auburnpub.net, auburnpub.uk, auburnpub.gov, auburnpub.au, auburnpub.com; wthitv.com, wthitv.net, wthitv.org, wthitv.biz, fredericremingtonmuseum.com; fredericremingtonmuseum.org, fredericremingtonmuseum.net, fredericremingtonmuseum.uk, fredericremingtonmuseum.au; frederickremingtonmuseum.au, frederickremingtonmuseum.net, frederickremingtonmuseum.org, fredericremingtonmuseum.au, fredericremingtonmusem.gov, frederickremingtonmuseum.biz; fredericremingtonart.org, frederickremingtonart.com, frederickremingtonart.net, fredrickremingtonart.com, fredrickremingtonart.org, fredrickremingtonart.net, fredrickremingtonart.gov; fredericremingtonbrand.com, fredericremingtonbrand.org; fredericremingtonbrand.net, frederickremingtonbrand.com; frederickremingtonbrand.net, frederickremingtonbrand.org, frederickremingtonbrand.gov; fredrickremingtonbrand.com, fredrickremingtonbrand.net, fredrickremingtonbrand.gov, fredrickremingtonbrand.org.
Misspellings of registered registered trademarks in domain names is a felony. Illegal users misspelling Remmington, with an additional "m" in Remington. Or misspelling Rolexx.com, Rollexx.net, Rollex.com in domains is still counterfeit trademarkd domain and is still a felony act when rented out for money (LICENSED), sold, used, or resold. Mere mis-spelling of famous principal registered Trademarks such as Remington® or Rolex® provides no protection from felony prosecution. Use involving a registered famous trademark misspell still felony violates the laws of the United States. People have attempted to BRAND by misspelling such famous BRAND trademark names as: Tommy Hilfiger, Fendi, Prada, Louis Vitan, Nike, Kate Spade, Gucci, Ray Ban, Tommy Bahama, Georgio, Ive St. Lauren, Ralph Lauren, Guess, St John, Sean John, Echo, Cartier, JBL, Lamborgini, Ferrari, Swiss Army, Martha Stewart, Hugo Boss, Ferigamo, Abercrombie & Fitch, Activision, Inc., Adidas International Inc., Altadis U.S.A., Inc., Altria Group, Inc., American Eagle Outfitters Inc, Apple, Inc., Art In Motion, Ashworth Inc., Batmark Limited, BeBe, Blueholdings Inc., Burberry Ltd., Calvin Klein Inc., Chanel, Inc., Chrome Hearts, Chrysler, Cisco Systems Inc., Coach, Coty, Inc., Daimler, Decker, Deere & Company, Dickies© Brand Appareland Accessories, Dolby Laboratories Inc., Ed Hardy (Nervous Tattoo), Electronic Arts Inc., Eli Lilly & Company, Energizer, Estee Lauder Companies, Farouk Systems, Inc., Federal-Mogul Corporation, FM Approvals LLC, Ford Motor Company, Fortune Brands, Inc., General Electric Company, General Motors Corporation, Gucci America Inc., Harley-Davidson, Harman international, Hit Entertainment, JT International SA, Johnson & Johnson Healthcare, Systems, LaCoste USA Inc., Levi Strauss & Co., Lexmark International Inc., Limited Brands, Liz Claiborne Inc., Louis Vuitton Malletier, Lucasfilm Ltd., Luxottica Group, Mark Ecko Enterprises, Mars Incorporated, Marvel Entertainment, Inc., MGA Entertainment, Microsoft Corporation, Motorola, Inc., Namco Bandai Holdings USA Inc., Nike Inc., Nokia Inc., Oakley Inc., Orange County Choppers, Paul Frank Industries Inc., Perry Ellis International Inc., Pfizer Inc., Philip Morris International Inc., Philip Morris USA, Procter & Gamble, Puig USA, Quiksilver Inc., Reebok International Ltd., Richemont International Ltd. (Cartier), Rolex Watch USA. Inc., Seven For All Mankind LLC, Stanley Works, The Collegiate Licensing Company, The Hearst Corporation/King Features, The Timberland Company, The Walt Disney Company, Tiffany & Company, Tommy Hilfiger USA Inc., True Religion Apparel, Inc., Underwriters Laboratories Inc., Unilever PLC, Universal Music Group, VF Corporation, Viacom Inc.,Vivendi Universal Games Inc., Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc, YKK Corporation of America, Zippo Manufacturing Company, Product Security Firms, 3M Security Systems Division, Armark Authentication Technologies, Authentix, CrimeBite Solutions, Inc., Dupont Authentication, Eastman Kodak, Elady, LTD, Graphic Security Systems Corporation, IDGlobal Corp. Kurz Group, Label-Tex Mills Inc., Markmonitor Inc., Northern Engraving Corporation Opsec Security Group Paxar Americas, Inc. SICPA Product Security SA TUV Rheinland Group Government Agencies Canada Border Services Agency Customs Border Services Agency DHS-U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement, Franklin Pierce Law Center Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Michigan State University, Montclair State University, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, San Diego Sheriff’s Department, State of North Carolina, State of Wisconsin, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, United States Olympic Committee, University of South Carolina, NBA, NFL, IHL, to name but a few.
Many trademark counterfeiters and counterfeit trademark traffickers are now in prison for their once thought cleverness. Companies spend years and millions of dollars to establish their trademarks and intellectual property rights, as well as the good will associated therewith. Others who attempt to take the shortcut to wealth by using that goodwill and BRAND recognition by counterfeiting the intellectual property rights of a federal principal registered trademark owner will be imprisoned, federally fined and "financially parted out" under federal asset forfeiture laws to satisfy restitution requirements to the Trademark or Copyright owner. The true easy way as well as financially rewarding way to long term wealth is to obtain a legitimate verified license from the United States Patent and Trademark Office principal register listed famous trademark owner. This information is of public record, can be accessed by a home or office computer www.USPTO.gov, or an attorney can provide this information in 30 seconds or less via USPTO computer records search or Lexis Nexis search. * See this courtesy link for one corporation's knowledge and understanding of quick success by obtaining a lawful legitimate license for a famous name BRAND to gain instant BRAND recognition for its products in the market place: am.sosland.com/.../ml.asp?Ref=RkJOLzIwMDYvMDQvMTgjQXIwMzYwMA==&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom - 10k - Cached - Similar pages
SAMPLE FAMOUS BRANDS PRIVATE SECTOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ENFORCEMENT SITES:
1) http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&q=IPSA+International&btnG=Google+Search
2) http://www.remingtonart.org/
3) http://www.schwimmerlegal.com/2004/11/paying_1_billio.html
4) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=E8r&q=www.netenforcers.com%2F+-+7k+-+Cached+-+Similar+pages&btnG=Search
5) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=4lC&q=Internet+Crimes+Group%2C+Inc.&btnG=Search
6) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=YpC&q=IACC.org&btnG=Search
Law Firms
A.A. Tejuoso & Co., Adams Intellectual Property Law, P.A., Arent Fox PLLC, Arnold & Porter LLP, Baker & Hostetler LLP, Baker & McKenzie, Barzano & Zanardo, Berkemeyer Attorneys & Counselors, Boehmert & Boehmert, Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, Burkhalter Kessler Goodman & George, LLP, Burns & Levinson LLP, Casalonga Avocats, Cowan, Liebowitz & Latan, P.C., Dannemann, Siemsen, Bigler & Ipanema Moreira, Davis McGrath LLC, Decker, Jones, McMackin, McClane, Hall & Bates PC, Demir and Erten Law Firm, De Novo Legal LLP, Dreier LLP, Elzaburu, Emilianides And Kyriakides Law Office, Federis & Associates Law Offices, Field Fisher Waterhouse, Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu PC, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, Gibney, Anthony & Flaherty, LLP, Gonzalez & Newman, Greenberg & Traurig, Holihan Law, Hunton & Williams LLP, J. Andrew Coombs, Keats, Mcfarland & Wilson LLP, Kenyon & Kenyon LLP, Kestenberg Siegal Lipkus LLP, Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Kim & Chang, Leora Herrmann, Levy & Grandinetti, Loeb & Loeb LLP, Momo-O, Matsuo & Namba, Osler, Hoskins & Harcourt LLP, Pakharenko & Partners, Pepper Hamilton, Ratza & ratza, Smart & Biggar, Torys LLP, Traphagen Law PLLC, Uhthoff Gomez Vega Y Uhthoff, S.C., Vivien Chan & Co., Zacarias & Fernandez, ,
Investigative Agencies
A Action Investigations &, Security Inc., AED Investigations, Inc., Abacus Security Inc., Allegiance Protection Group, Asia Risk Limited, Bambenek Investigative Group, Brand Security Corporation, CDS Risk Management, Cedar White Bradley International, Americas - Asia, Counter-Tech Investigations inc., Frederic Remington® Art Museum Foundation.org, Geis Investigative Group, Haney & Associates, Hemaya Universal, IDEAL Investigations, Intellectual Property Services, Inc., Internet Crimes Group, Inc., Intelligence&Investigation Services, Investigations Inc., IP Crime Unit, Investigative Consultants, Ipcybercrime.com, IPSA International, Mario Loaiza & Associates, Marksmen Inc., McCabe Associates Inc., Net Enforcers Inc., Panoramic Consulting LTD., PICA Corporation, Pinkerton Consulting and Investigations, Quantico Ltd., Rosario Investigations, Rouse India Private Limited, RQ Inc., The Steele Foundation, Trademark Investigation Services, Vaudra Ltd., Veritas Global
Associations involved in Enforcement of U.S. Intellectual Property Rights
Art Copyright Coalition, Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association, Canadian Standards Association, Coalition to Advance the Protection of Sports Logos, Entertainment Software Association, Frederic Remington® Art Museum Foundation.org, Imaging Supplies Coalition for International, Intellectual Property Protection, National Electrical Manufacturers, Association, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Recording Industry Association of America, Software & Information Industry, Association, Vision Council of America.