How To Officially Piss Off the Largest Bank in the World

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If you've served any competitors offers at any time you will lose for TM infringement. The content is fine but the moment you put any related ads up you lose all grounds.

All they have to do is produce some archives or screen shots of the site promoting any related products in any related industries and it will be case closed. Just sayin'

Check out some UDRP cases.
 


For what it's worth:

A cursory review of the USPTO's Trademark Database reveals that this is the TM Registration for the WORD MARK in Class 36 (for Financial Services) their case would hinge on. They also own the DESIGN Mark which, arguably, you could claim you are not infringing upon since you are not replicating their logo- only using the name (aka WORD MARK). So demonstrate that you aren't using anything on your website that would infringe upon these areas (which, in order to make the likelihood of confusion argument, they would need to say you are):

BANKING SERVICES- NAMELY, FINANCING, CREDIT AND LOAN SERVICES, COMPOUND INTEREST ACCOUNTS, CHECKING ACCOUNTS, SPECIAL CHECKING ACCOUNTS, FOREIGN EXCHANGE, LETTERS OF CREDIT AND TRAVELERS' CHECKS, COMMERCIAL SAVINGS AND TRUST DEPARTMENT SERVICES, AND SAVINGS BANK CENTERS.

And, if I were JP Morgan, I would go back to whoever my intellectual property counsel is and give the associate who wrote this letter a good swift kick in the "I'll take my work elsewhere" ass. Of course there is a likelihood of confusion. That's implicit. You went to school for seven years and that's the only/ best argument you could come up with?

If you really wanted to be a bugger about it, post information about their terrible customer service (which is not covered by their trademark) and if they go after you about it, tell them it's your first amendment right. Make a constitutional law issue out of it. It'll be an incredible waste of money, their resources and time.

The law firm I used to work for tried, and failed (Yes, a LAW FIRM) to do an UDRP domain recovery and trademark infringement suit against someone who registered the name 'lawfirmname'loses.com. This was against a jilted former client who, you guessed it, lost the case.
 
that idea is squatting and would be THE reason they would win a judgement in court.

Of course telling them that you are looking for compensation for removal wouldn't be the brightest idea..

However, if Chase comes to the conclusion that they cannot legally force said owner to remove the content from the site then Chase will most likely offer money to remove the content in order to protect the integrity of their brand.
 
You're starting to get in potential hot water if you're making money from the site by co-opting their "Brand". Get rid of their logo in your header ASAP, get rid of the ads for credit cards. The truth is, if JP Morgan wanted to make your life hell, they could do so, even if their legal ground was shaky to begin with. Don't give them a reason.

Next thing you need to do is:

1) ask yourself how important is this project to you. Is it worth a legal battle?
2) Get a lawyer if you decide to go toe to toe.

I recommend you fight this. Sites like yours do a important role of keeping big companies in check when they come out with subpar products/services. But if you're going to do it, do it with a strong case behind you.
 
Re-direct the URL to makemoniesonline.com and tell them you removed their logos and to check.

In all seriousness they only have a claim if youre profiting from the site with their intellectual property on it. Remove the ads or remove the references to chase bank.
 
I'd remove all links to financial and banking institutions, you don't have to take away the text content just remove the links, and if they say thats not good enough then tell them to go fuck themselves because its called freedom of speech bitches.

Good job at gaining some attention though.
 
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