So, I mentioned yesterday that some guy from ExcitingEvents.com claimed to own common words in the English language and threatened me with legal action for using those words on a trademark they don’t actually own. For posterity, I’m putting the email exchange here. He always responded to me emails within minutes. But hasn’t responded to the last one. It went down just like this:

Him:

Good Afternoon,

This is Steven with Exciting Events. I’m looking for a physical mailing address for Neat-O-Rama as we would like to report some infringement on our copyright on this link

Saysuncle.com/2012/05/04/gatling-gun-t-shirt-launcher/

Could you either remove this article from your site or contact me back with a mailing address.

(obnoxious graphic-laden signature file with links to every social media site and ridiculously sized pictures deleted)

Me:

I’m not affiliated with Neatorama but their contact page is here: http://www.neatorama.com/faq#!iauyx

Him:

Can you still please remove that link from your website?

(obnoxious graphic-laden signature file with links to every social media site and ridiculously sized pictures deleted – seriously, turn that off on replies and shit. It’s annoying, Mr. Social Media guy.)

Me:

What on earth for?

Him:

Because our terminology of t-shirt gatling gun is being used without our permission.
We can have our legal team contact you if you want to go that route.

(obnoxious graphic-laden signature file with links to every social media site and ridiculously sized pictures deleted – OK, now this is pain in the ass and making my head hurt

Me:

Well, giddy up. Bring on the lawyers. My lawyers would like to know your job title to address you appropriately. Any correspondence on this matter should be emailed to me here and I will forward it to them. If your legal team would like to contact me, they can at this email address. If they need a physical address, they can go through the proper channels and get my hosting service to release that information as I’m generally not keen on giving out my address to strangers on the internet. Or you could save them the time and tell them to email me.

On a personal note, this won’t end well for your company: https://www.saysuncle.com/2013/09/04/excitingevents-com-would-like-me-to-know-that-not-using-the-term-t-shirt-gatling-gun-and-instead-using-the-term-gatling-gun-t-shirt-launcher-is-still-grounds-to-sue-me/

I await the reply from the legal team.

Update: The nice people from ExcitingEvents have responded to me:

Today, I received a response from Dan at ExcitingEvents.com. He was courteous and professional. He also apologized for his employee’s behavior; said his employee was overzealous; and took responsibility for not reviewing the emails before they were sent out.

Also, he sent me links to their actual shirt gun in use (it’s not the one in the video) and, let me tell you, it’s pretty awesome. I’ll show it to you once he gives the OK.

Seriously, nice guy. I commend them for reaching out to me.

Thanks, Dan!

Posted in uncategorized on September 5th, 2013 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |