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The founder of this must not understand or care for the rammifications of passing off laws. By calling it Muzmatch.com there are almost certainly people who th
by richliss 4y ago
The founder of this must not understand or care for the rammifications of passing off laws.
By calling it Muzmatch.com there are almost certainly people who thought it was a spin-off from Match.com, a market leader with trusted standards of operation. This is why you lose passing off cases.
If he'd have called it something that wasn't extremely similar to market incumbents he'd have a leg to stand on, and the story he tells on their blog is trying to paint themselves as the victims here but they really aren't.
The likelihood is that they will change their name and the vast majority of their existing users will carry on as-is. That's quite a win as he should consider himself lucky that they haven't been sued for loss of earnings by Match.com against the entire time they have been open.