tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post6840477292126578013..comments2023-09-24T08:04:06.909-04:00Comments on FSK's Guide to Reality: Who Cares About the Supreme Court?FSKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11903396202330950362noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-5961854771657544052010-05-27T09:36:12.608-04:002010-05-27T09:36:12.608-04:00Please look at the web page below.
http://www.dai...Please look at the web page below.<br /><br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1281886/David-Goliath-battle-Harrods-orders-roadside-cafe-change-sign-copyright-infringement.html<br /><br />The article says "Harrods" are suing "Hollands Cafe Lounge" over copyright infringement.<br /><br />I did not know that individual words and names could be copyrighted.<br /><br />Short phrases, names and dictionary words cannot be copyrighted. You cannot copyright the word "dog". You cannot copyright the name "Paul".<br /><br />So I don't understand how lawyers can sue of copyright when copyright is for things of artistic or literary merit such as books, songs etc.<br /><br />Surely they should be suing for trademark infringement. But they are not according to the article.<br /><br />Either the article is wrong, but maybe these lawyers feel asleep during the relevant lecture at school.<br /><br />Even then "Hollands Cafe Lounge" cannot be mistaken to "Harrods". Nobody in their right mind could mistake one name for the other.<br /><br />Harrods is a shop. "Hollands Cafe Lounge" is a family run restaurant. They are in different cities. Nobody could mistake one for the other.<br /><br />Please someone explain to me how this is a valid lawsuit?<br /><br />Surely lawyers don't sue over junk???<br /><br />Didn't the Germany coffee shop chain "Kaffehausen" sue "The Tea Box" in England? The lawsuit took 18 MONTHS TO BE RESOLVED. How can totally different names in totally different countries cause people to mistake a chain of coffee shops for one tea and sandwich place in a different country?<br /><br />Please tell me lawyers don't sue over complete and utter rubbish.<br /><br />Say my name is "Peter"? Can I sue "FSK's Guide to Reality" over copyright just because I think the name "Peter" is similar to "FSK".<br /><br />Can you really sue over just anything?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-31160798596415378782010-05-21T22:04:22.229-04:002010-05-21T22:04:22.229-04:00>Don't you think you are a little
>para...>Don't you think you are a little <br />>paranoid my dear? You are quite <br />>obviously suffering from some sort <br />>of delusion.<br /><br />It isn't paranoia. In recent times, one poor guy had to spend two years and several hundred thousand pounds in court just to define the meaning of a few words in a libel case. The whole thing might have been silly as they should have just got a statistician in the court to say if the experimental evidence was good statistical proof for what was said. But as the lawyers pissed around studying law instead of maths and science, they wouldn't know about that. Even though they don't have any real world skills and can't even properly interpret experimental and clinical evidence it doesn't stop them making wodges of cash.<br /><br />But back to my original point about unsigned contracts being enforced in the UK. Two men had a business. One man got ill or something and did not participate in the business for a while. He came back and wanted some sort of share of the business. I don't know the exact details. Anyway a solicitor sent this guy a contract to sign, but he never did sign it. A court ruled that even though he never signed the contract he should be bound by it, because they thought he ACTED like he had signed it.<br /><br />HA! HA! HA!<br /><br />So you don't actually need to sign a contract for it to be valid.<br /><br />Now maybe there are a lot of details about the case I don't know about. <br /><br />But the thing is that slimeball solicitors will read about unsigned contracts being enforced in the UK and go about with a straight face trying to enforce unsigned contracts in different situations.<br /><br />I would hope all this is bullshit. Of course these slimeball lawyers never submit their cases to court.<br /><br />They slime and slime. They send out letters full of threats and don't even sign them. Obviously to avoid blowback.<br /><br />It is all about frightening someone in a way that seems official and legal, but has little or no legal merit.<br /><br />This unfortunate case has eroded contract law in the UK, because of slimeballs that try to extend the ruling to different matters.<br /><br />Anything to do with a legal matter won't get resolved for months or years and will take a lot of money.<br /><br />The legal merit is beside the point.<br /><br />As I said before even two names that are totally different can be defined by a lawyer to infringe trademark.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-67996481988058713952010-05-18T20:22:32.247-04:002010-05-18T20:22:32.247-04:00I believe a leaked letter from the lawyer of a fam...I believe a leaked letter from the lawyer of a famous actor's wife, stated that the point of civil law suits is harassment.<br /><br />If you have ever run a business in a Western country you will get sued over something pointless and silly at some point.<br /><br />Despite the lawsuit being silly, it can take up to a year and tens of thousands of pounds to resolve.<br /><br />The whole point is not to go to court but to waste so much of some one's time and money, it is simpler just to hand over a wad of cash to settle the case out of court.<br /><br />In reality a lawyer won't sue over just an unsigned contract, but he/she will sue over 10 bullshit things in the hope that something will stick.<br /><br />I've mentioned this before but a tea and sandwich cafeteria called "The Tea Box" located in England was sued by a chain of coffee shops in Germany called "Kaffehausen" over trademark infringement. You may notice the name "The Tea Box" is nothing like "Kaffehausen" and that they are located in different countries.<br /><br />This legal action took 18 months to resolve. Any idiot can see "The Tea Box" is nothing like "Kaffehausen".<br /><br />Is this stupid enough for you?<br /><br />I also recommend the previous commenter check out<br /><br />http://www.rjmintz.com/legal-extortion.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-51021609329141683622010-05-18T14:09:35.897-04:002010-05-18T14:09:35.897-04:00Don't you think you are a little paranoid my d...Don't you think you are a little paranoid my dear? You are quite obviously suffering from some sort of delusion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-19346394577911126762010-05-17T20:47:17.570-04:002010-05-17T20:47:17.570-04:00Tony Bliar of the Nu Lie-bour Zanu Party created a...Tony Bliar of the Nu Lie-bour Zanu Party created a supreme court in the UK. The Daily Mail stated that the Supreme Court is higher than Parliament.<br /><br />Parliament is elected, but the Supreme Court judges are not elected by the tax-payers.<br /><br />There are many problems with unelected judges having more power than the elected Parliament.<br /><br />For one if you don't like a law, you can complain to your MP. Mostly your MP won't do anything, but there is a chance the MP might talk about it in the House of Parliament or make a private members bill.<br /><br />With an unelected judge making bad case law there is nothing you can do.<br /><br />Case law can be pretty stupid.<br /><br />Did you know UNSIGNED CONTRACTS HAVE BEEN ENFORCED in the UK?<br /><br />So you just have to waive a bit of paper under someone's nose saying they owe you 1 million pounds and then you go to your local court to get it enforced.<br /><br />Just see the money roll it via crap case law.<br /><br />Or don't even bother going to court. Just get a solicitor to send a letter laced with threats.<br /><br />If you fight it, it will cost you thousands of pounds and months to years of your time.<br /><br />The legal system is just a money spinner for a bunch of clowns that know nothing about morality or ethics or the dangers of making bad case law.<br /><br />Once case law has been made, loads of bent solicitors will jump on the bandwagon and make threats using the bad case law.<br /><br />It is a cancer. The Law Society acts as a trade union and does not stamp on bent solicitors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-27475032461145513922010-05-17T12:51:50.842-04:002010-05-17T12:51:50.842-04:00But I hear they get to design their own robes. Tha...But I hear they get to design their own robes. That is pretty cool.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com