Comments on: Trademark Fight: Intel Is Worried You Might Think It Is A Chinese Travel Agency

By: trademark

trademark — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:28:31 +0000

Unfortunately, a lot of large companies think that because they *can* sue others, they *should* sue others. Sigh.

By: BlogReader

BlogReader — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:10:19 +0000

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By: Michael Kassing

Michael Kassing — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:02:19 +0000

It would seem to me that if anyone had a right to infringement it would be INTELETRAVEL (see USPTO http://tarr.usp...;entry=74604054). Looks like someone needs to get a better monitoring service…..

Michael Kassing
MarkTend.com
http://marktend.com

By: usa trademark registration

usa trademark registration — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:31:33 +0000

thanks for your info

By: famousbob

famousbob — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:53:36 +0000

I bet the Central Intelligence Agency are consulting some good trademark lawyers now to keep their name after read this.

By: Digimaven

Digimaven — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:44:53 +0000

Depends on how it’s pronounced. If the focus is on the last syllable, no confusion. But if it’s pronounced like INTEL-LIFE, then there could actually be a basis.

By: B

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:20:57 +0000

If I was IntelLife, I would have call myself Int’lLife Travel and avoid this headache. All of this sounds like a a cheap marketing ploy by IntelLife.

By: bob

bob — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:11:30 +0000

AMDlife travel

Maybe they should move to Seattle, and start MicrosoftLife Travel or StarbucksLife Travel.

By: also read the pdfs and the letter

also read the pdfs and the letter — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:08:48 +0000

The letter from Intel’s lawyer invites intellife to make a small name change. Doesn’t sound like bullying to me.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:57:51 +0000

IntelLife is looking to make money here. They are the greedy party. Big companies like Intel don’t bring lawsuits like this lightly. I bet IntelLife was unreasonable in its demands. Now, they want our money to help them? I am not sure for what.

By: TPile » Blog Archive » Time For A Moron In A Hurry To Explain The Difference Between Microprocessors And A Trip To China

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:41:52 +0000

[...] using the name “Art Inside”) among various other cases over the years. Its latest is to go after a travel agency called Intellife Travel that books trips between the US and China. The travel agency clearly explained to Intel that unless [...]

By: Bigi

Bigi — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:25:22 +0000

You seem to be excessively interested in defending the lawyers acting on this. Since you didn’t read my message, I mentioned that Faith Zhang does not think of Intel as a bully. The ridiculousness comes from the lawyers and I agree. These outside lawyers are trying to make money any way they want. Like other commenters have said, we know they’re gonna win, and we also know they’re scums. Nothing we can do about it, nothing you can do to change our minds. The main article is already posted on TC. These comments don’t even matter.

By: A

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:26:31 +0000

let me register a trademark ‘A’, so people please don’t have char ‘A’ in your trademark.
anyone want to register ‘B’ or other character?

By: TheLittleGuy

TheLittleGuy — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:04:02 +0000

I read the pdf. Here’s what Intel’s asking for from Intellife. This is greed:

Under “PRAYER FOR RELIEF”
6. A judgment in the amount of Intel’s actual damages, Intellife’s profits, Intel’s reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of suit, and pre-judgment interest pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 1117;

By: TheLittleGuy

TheLittleGuy — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:46:28 +0000

I’m in. Make that 7 people.

By: good reading

good reading — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:45:18 +0000

Good think you read the pdfs. So now I don’t have to tell you about how the Intel claim is that trademarks derived as a compound word such as “Intel” + [another whole word] or “Intel” + [an abbreviation of a common word] are considered infringements.

Whereas trademarks beginning with “Intelli” plus something else are not considered infringements.

Since you have read the pdfs, I can only guess that “inutel” is the filipino word for: “one who makes ignorant statements without taking time to read first”.

By: greed

greed — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:33:08 +0000

So how exactly does this equate to greed? Is it greedy to keep their trademark all to themselves?

Or should Intel be “generous” and allow anyone and everyone the opportunity to leverage their marketing $$, all the while diluting their trademark and losing the right to defend it in the future when there is not only blatant infringement but also potentially an implied association with a company with questionable business.

Since you have surely read the pdfs, you should already know how the precedents factor into their ability to defend their trademark. If they let anyone get away with infringement, they will have no leg to stand on next time it happens.

By: Free advertising == overrated

Free advertising == overrated — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:27:29 +0000

Ooops… you are forgetting that intellife is 99% likely to lose (Intel wins these cases all the time and has many precedents). When they do, all of their new press goes down the toilet.

For example: in the future, when you see “Intel” and you think of “Intellife Travel, Inc.” and you type in their url that is redirected to intel.com, you are going to wonder why your brain comes up with that useless stale link. All the great advertising isn’t worth a hill of beans.

So what… you and 6 other people who care will each donate $10 to the defense fund? Gee thanks! Zhang is going to be so relieved that the world is on her side.

By: I read the actual pdfs

I read the actual pdfs — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:02:36 +0000

What exactly are you implying that Intel has to gain from all of this?

The only thing I can think of is protecting their precious and expensive trademark from dilution and the huge downside of bad association. I can’t imagine Intel has anything else to gain from this.

There is a perfectly standard case of trademark protection. As far as I know, there is nothing new about this case that is a result of Bush. Is there any chance you have a link or other information to back up this claim?

By: I read the actual pdfs

I read the actual pdfs — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:57:50 +0000

Since you didn’t read the pdfs, I’ll add that changing the business name should not be a concern. There are two reasons why:

1) the entity does not need to “do business” under the old name in order to cash checks. They merely need to maintain the LLC with the old name to preserve that right
2) Intel offered them the opportunity to negotiate a transitionary term to alleviate their losses

For all of those who think Intel is a bully… do you really think this travel agency is so oblivious to Intel’s trademark that it did not occur to them they would be violating it? Intel is perfectly within its rights to preserve its trademark.

And did any of you legal experts stop to think whether the slimy one here was not actually Zhang? As if she didn’t know what she was doing. Really… the only reason she is hanging on here is for the chance to receive a settlement check.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:13:13 +0000

Just to point out that here in the UK, although we do operate a “loser pays” system, you still incur very large costs BEFORE the case is settled. However confident you are of winning, the financially weaker party remains at a significant disadvantage because they will either incur costs along the way they need to settle OR, even if a lawyer will only bill upon settlement, will still need to find one as certain as they are of winning and being in a position to pay at the end. Not a worthy gamble when going up against a multinational corp.

One famous English legal bod, Lord Justice Darling, once summed it up nicely. “The law courts of England are open to all men, like the doors of the Ritz Hotel.”

By: whyloo

whyloo — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:09:18 +0000

intel is powerful

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By: wei

wei — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:23:07 +0000

I have bought many tickets through Intellife, I thought Faith is the nicest travel agent I have even seen, though I have not really met her in person. I think that Intel should drop the case, or at least pay all the cost to change the name, if it is possible. It never occur to me that Intellife is part of Intel. This is ridiculous.

BTW, I would recommend Intellife to anybody want to buy a ticket to Asia. Her ticket’s price is the lowest but her service is excellent.