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Would also be interested in hearing what people think of the name. It is a reference to building a property website with little (wee) bricks (brix) but also ha

by etewiah 10y ago

Would also be interested in hearing what people think of the name. It is a reference to building a property website with little (wee) bricks (brix) but also happens to sound a bit like wix and weebly ;)

smt88 10y ago
Did you have a lawyer do a name search for you and assess the name? It may be dangerously similar to Weebly...
- etewiah 10y ago
  Thanks for the advice. I would image a lawyer would charge a fortune just to talk to me. Any ideas of online resources about this topic that I could use to get an idea of the risk?
  - smt88 10y ago
    There isn't a concrete answer. A judge would try to determine whether consumers could be confused by your name and believe that it was somehow tied to Weebly. The results of such cases are all over the place and depend on lots of different factors. That's where a lawyer comes in. S/he will be able to give you an idea of overall risk, rather than a hard "yes" or "no" answer as to whether you can use the name. The only way to assess the risk is to have experience reading about (and ideally representing someone in) such cases. Some law can be done "well enough" yourself, but some things absolutely require a lawyer. Founding documents and name searches are absolutely in the latter category. Find a lawyer in your city who specializes in startups and get an hour of time. You're mostly paying for experience, not for raw time, so it won't be expensive. You can expect $0-$100 on the lower end, especially if it's trying to get you into the office to sell more work. The most you might expect to pay is $500. Don't worry about the price, and instead try to find the right person -- someone who has been practicing for years and has lots of cases under his/her belt. Edit: I actually just realized that if your comment about WeeBrix sounding like Weebly is searchable in the future, it would seriously hurt you in a lawsuit. If you intend to keep the name, you should delete that immediately and hope that there aren't any archiving/caching services that picked it up.
    - etewiah 10y ago
      Thanks for the advice. I'll ask on a few more forums. Regarding my comment, I do make it clear that my primary reason for picking it is that it has a connection to website builders for the property sector. The fact that it sounds like a competitor is secondary.

by etewiah 10y ago

smt88 10y ago

Did you have a lawyer do a name search for you and assess the name? It may be dangerously similar to Weebly...

etewiah 10y ago
Thanks for the advice. I would image a lawyer would charge a fortune just to talk to me. Any ideas of online resources about this topic that I could use to get an idea of the risk?
- smt88 10y ago
  There isn't a concrete answer. A judge would try to determine whether consumers could be confused by your name and believe that it was somehow tied to Weebly. The results of such cases are all over the place and depend on lots of different factors. That's where a lawyer comes in. S/he will be able to give you an idea of overall risk, rather than a hard "yes" or "no" answer as to whether you can use the name. The only way to assess the risk is to have experience reading about (and ideally representing someone in) such cases. Some law can be done "well enough" yourself, but some things absolutely require a lawyer. Founding documents and name searches are absolutely in the latter category. Find a lawyer in your city who specializes in startups and get an hour of time. You're mostly paying for experience, not for raw time, so it won't be expensive. You can expect $0-$100 on the lower end, especially if it's trying to get you into the office to sell more work. The most you might expect to pay is $500. Don't worry about the price, and instead try to find the right person -- someone who has been practicing for years and has lots of cases under his/her belt. Edit: I actually just realized that if your comment about WeeBrix sounding like Weebly is searchable in the future, it would seriously hurt you in a lawsuit. If you intend to keep the name, you should delete that immediately and hope that there aren't any archiving/caching services that picked it up.
  - etewiah 10y ago
    Thanks for the advice. I'll ask on a few more forums. Regarding my comment, I do make it clear that my primary reason for picking it is that it has a connection to website builders for the property sector. The fact that it sounds like a competitor is secondary.