Comments on: Idiotic Trademark Abuse

By: Stephen Toth

Stephen Toth — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:33:04 +0000

I had a run in with the famous Leo Stoller a few months back. We had used the word stealth for my friends website. It was called Stealth Racing. Nothing for profit just some kids having fun with there cars. After a few months I received a large packet in the mail from the famous Leo Stoller. It contained a bunch of legal documentation and a letter from the famous Leo Stoller that I was to shut down the site immediately and send him all the graphical content. I was perplexed, what do I do? Luckily my fiancee’s aunt is a lawyer and wrote a nice letter for me to send back to the famous Leo Stoller. We shut the site down but didn’t send him anything. But it all comes back, he will get his dues trying to muscle a company like Columbia. To the famous and unique Leo Stoller “what goes around comes around”…___hole

By: the space above the couch » Freedom of Expression ™

the space above the couch » Freedom of Expression ™ — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:34:09 +0000

[...] eedy man who has been giving the legal system a bad name. (The New York Times recently ran an article confirming as much.) The way he has been registering everyday exp [...]

By: The Real Paul Jones » Freedom of Expresssion ™

The Real Paul Jones » Freedom of Expresssion ™ — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:25:38 +0000

[...] Consortium sent to Leo Stoller of Rentamark.com. Read the letter at JJB’s blog. Read the background on Stroller and the posting by Cory at boingboing.net

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By: Copyfight

Copyfight — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:51:05 +0000

Copyfighter’s Karma

The gentleman who trademarked the word “stealth,” among other common words and phrases, get his just deserts….

By: A.R.Yngve

A.R.Yngve — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 14:41:12 +0000

I predict Leo Stoller’s epitath will read like this:

HERE LIES
LEO STOLLER(tm)
HE DID NOT BUY
THE RIGHTS TO
“WORTH LIVING”

By: Boing Boing

Boing Boing — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 07:47:01 +0000

Copyfighter to trademark bully: I own “freedom of expression”

Leo Stoller is the jackass who registered a trademark on the word “Stealth” and now has a racket bullying people into paying him for a “license” to use the word (people give him small sums of money to get lost, though occasionally they sue and get …

By: Steffan Hughes

Steffan Hughes — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 05:32:01 +0000

Seems like a good idea. Maybe we should divide the dictionary between us and begin suing companies all over the world for using words we used in a blog to define a great moment or something. Maybe we will get companies just paying us money to keep us quiet!! He, he.

By: IPTAblog

IPTAblog — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 01:25:55 +0000

Make money by misunderstanding trademark law

New York Times: He Says He Owns the Word ‘Stealth’ (Actually, He Claims ‘Chutzpah,’ Too): Over the last few years, Leo Stoller has written dozens of letters to companies and organizations and individuals stating that he owns the trademark to…

By: Bobak

Bobak — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 00:02:16 +0000

I laughed at that article too. on a related side note, TM law isn’t too complicated: I ended up passing the class my final semester of law school with flying colors having never gone to class, never read the textbook, but rather bought the short c “E-Z Trademarks” book (not kidding, that was the title) and reading it over the 3 days before the exam.

By: Leben am Existenzmaximum

Leben am Existenzmaximum — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 22:23:16 +0000

Dumm und Dümmer

Ich weiß ja nicht wer blöder ist: der, der keine Ahnung von Urheber- und Markenrecht hat und deshalb jeden Fall vor Gericht verliert, oder der bei jeder Abmahnung gleich Zahlt und die Sache gar nicht erst bis vors Gericht kommen lässt. Auf jeden fal…