products refered too: http://shop.canadaka.net/designs.php?id=122


Now... i dunno im no legal expert, but can you really trademark words like that? "Wet Beaver"?

I would like some advice if this is a legit legal claim, and I should remove the shirts...

   

Also no leagle beagle here Trev, but amazingly enough the trademark does exist. Link

Surely someone here knows a bit more about the subject. Don't seem right to me either. What is to stop someone from trademarking "left turn"? Hell we would all be going around in circles to the right......

   

I dunno how this work... because there is a Wet Beaver Brewery, Wet Beaver Creek, Wet Beaver T-Shirts (they claim to have a trademark -> dunno if you got the email from them), Wet Beaver Loop. all this on the first page I googled, not the mentioned all the other site I could have mentioned.



-Mario-

   

Check with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office CIPO

http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/cipo ... com-e.html

I did a "quick" search for "Wet Beaver" and found no registered trademark

Even though its an american product they still have to register with CIPO
I believe.

If you just recieved an email about it, I'd assume your entitled to something more official, actual mail. If this email wasn't from a law firm with contact information id say its bogus.

   

You could give them the following links followingTradeMark and Copyright and tell them you are based in Canada.

   

If you feel a need to reply back. Tell them you don't sell to the US and they'd need to prove otherwise.

   

Wet Beaver sounds like it would be the trademark of a porn company or something doesn't it?

It probably wouldn't hurt to check with a lawyer. Cross-border laws and regulations are often arcane and bizarre, laws that only the souless can make sense of.

   

thanks for the replies, but it doens't really matter what Canadian copyright says, they are only complaining about in the US, in the email.

But it does seem odd that in the US, there is all these "Wet beaver" products and companies.

All I got was an email, from someon claiming to be from the company I guess, from an AOL.com email.

Wet Beaver, Inc.
Waddell, AZ

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I don't have a big problem removing the products, its just a bit of work to do so. I could but the shirt back up without the text....