Below is an actual email from March 4th of this year from the legal counsel for First American. It clearly states that if I comply and contact them by a certain date that they would release any trademark liability from my use of www.LoanSafe.org.
I contacted them, agreed and shut down my company Loan Safe Solutions Inc. Dozens of people endedup losing their jobs. I suffered backlash from all angles of the business spectrum. (ex-employees, internet haters etc.) I then deleted the content and the domain expired at www.LoanSafeSolutions.com (website is gone). The corporation is dissolved and now they are trying to steal my forum from me and the thousands of homeowners it helps daily.
LoanSafe.org is clearly used in a non commercial manner and always has been. I have very few advertisements for attorneys to help struggling homeowners with their home loans.
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From: Leonard, Michael J. <leonardm@pepperlaw.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:47 AM
Subject: RE: Loan Safe Solutions/First American Corelogic — LOANSAFE
xxxxxxx.com
Cc: xxxxxxxlaw.com, “Tabaddor, Rouz” <rtabaddor@firstam.com>
FOR SETTLEMENT PURPOSES ONLYHi Neil.
Thank you for your e-mail and for taking the time to discuss with us a potential resolution to this matter.
First American has requested that I advise that in exchange for releasing your client from any trademark and/or unfair competition claims/liability, it is willing to resolve this matter based upon the following broad terms:- Within 60 days of any agreement, LoanSafe Solutions will change its name, discontinue all use of LoanSafe Solutions and remove all content from the loansafesolutions.com web site. Your client will need to agree that any new corporate name(s) it adopts will not include the LOAN and SAFE terms.
- Upon completion of the corporate name change and transfer of the administrative and ownership rights to the loansafesolutions.com domain name, First American will compensate your client $500 for the maintenance and upkeep of the subject domain name.
- First American will not object to or otherwise challenge your client’s right to use the loansafe.org domain name on the condition that your client agree that the loansafe.org domain name will always and only be used in a non-commercial manner.
- Any agreement for the resolution of this matter will also need to include a term whereby your client agrees not to use or seek registration of any other trademark/service mark, company/trade name or domain name consisting of or incorporating First American’s registered LOANSAFE trademark.
Should your client be willing to settle this matter as set forth above, we ask that you contact us by Monday, 9 March 2009. Absent your client’s willingness to proceed as requested, First American will be forced to consider other options and remedies for securing the termination of your client’s use of the LoanSafe Solutions name and loansafesolutions.com domain name.Please contact me with any questions.
Regards,
Mike
Michael J. Leonard
Attorney at Law
Pepper Hamilton LLP
3000 Two Logan Square
Eighteenth and Arch Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19103-2799
215.981.4547 (direct)
215.689.4602 (direct fax)
leonardm@pepperlaw.com
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