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I don't know about you all but I never noticed that "mywireless" is a registered trademark of sentech. If they don't state that it is a registered trademark then they have no say about sites like mywirelesssucks.co.za etc. Also, while browsing their site, I found something I like to call the "funiest joke ever!".
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Registration of trademarks etc. is handled by CIPRO.

Companies and Intellectual Property Registration Office of South Africa


http://www.cipro.co.za/Home/



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I'm busy trying to find info on mywireless and it's trademarks. If I have to pay for this info I'll gladly do so. As soon as I get anything I'll post it up.
 
You need to fill in a TM2 and give them R85 .........

Having everything online would reduce their revenue model. It might also take some time as they are moving offices at present.

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I've requested help from a legal firm to find this information for me. I'm not gonna wait 7 days for them as a new customer so I'm sure the legal peeps can help me out here.
 
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<br />Mydraadloos - Wtf is a batenna?
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Muhahahaha LMFAO [:D] u made my day!

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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by TheRoDent</i>
<br />Yes, that's something I've wondered about as well. Have Sentech actually registered MyWireless as a trademark? Does anyone know how one can check?
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AFAIK (but I'm not sure about this, and IANAL), as long as one has already been trading using a particular mark, and the public already associates the mark with your product, it doesn't need to actually be registered for you to call it your TM and use it, but I think how it works is if you haven't actually registered it and someone else registers it "maliciously" with intent to profit off it, then you need to go to court to "win back" protection/ownership of it. If you can prove that the public already associates the mark with your product, you can get the TM. Something like that, anyway. (This happened with "Linux" in the US, someone else (malicious) registered "Linux" as a TM for an Operating System years after Linux was already well-known in the IT community. Linus Torvalds took him to court, and successfully won back TM ownership. The fact that e.g. there was already a magazine running for years called "Linux Journal" counted in his favour. For Sentech, their TV ads would prove its "their" TMs. McDonalds entry into South Africa was also delayed for years because a Durban businessman running a burger fast food place had registered "M<b>a</b>cDonalds" as a TM in South Africa, and had been running his business for years under that name. Eventually McDs managed to successfully prove to the courts that the "average South African" already knew the trademark and associated that trademark with the American franchise.) So feel free to register "MyWireless" if Sentech haven't, but you'd probably lose in court :) (IF you have bad intent. I know you'd almost certainly lose if you tried to profit in the ISP business using the trademark, but you are allowed to e.g. sell "MyWireless hamburgers" as it's a different industry. What I'm not sure of is if you register a trademark and the only thing you do with it is use it to criticise a company. I suspect though that courts would not like that behaviour even if your complaints about the company were valid, as that is not the purpose of trademarks, trademarks are to protect companies actually trading a product using a particular mark.)
 
Anybody been to www.mywirelesssucks.co.za lately? Quite an interesting place for it to point to. Now to get the link on google..
 
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<br />Anybody been to www.mywirelesssucks.co.za lately? Quite an interesting place for it to point to. Now to get the link on google..
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Its like school, someone sticks a note on someones back "I'm an idiot, hit me" and person wonders why he keeps getting hit [B)]

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If we weren't customers it would be more amusing. But I still had a chuckle. Perhaps Bowman & al didn't want it pointing to their site?
 
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