You are very likely to be sued in Case 1. In Case 2,
you should be pretty safe, because the fundamental
issue with trademark infringement is that is should
not confuse consumers. If you are selling textile
under Hi_Intel name, it is not going to confuse
consumeres, because an AVERAGE consumer (and that is
the test - that an average consumer should not get
confused) would not confuse textiles with
microprocessors.
Manoj
--- SIPA - VENTCAP SIG <[email protected]> wrote:
> Contributor/REPLT TO : Shanti
> Chordia <[email protected]>
>
> I got a question and would invite the views of
> friends of this group.
>
> CASE I:
> Suppose my company is dealing in microprocessors
> like Intel and I name
> my site as Hi_ntel.com (Hi underscore ntel.com) then
> will there be any
> copyright infringement or trademark problems - will
> I be sued by Intel ?
>
> CASE II:
> Suppose I am in a diametrically different line of
> business (say textiles
> or
> garments ?) then what happens ?
>
> Are there any case referances or court rulings to
> this effect. I would
> do this for two reasons - for the shortage of names
> - with all of them
> that I know of getting exhausted and for the
> greater obvious reason for
>
> getting known better since Intel is branded.
>
> Thanks for your time
>
> Shanti Chordia