Comments on: Redfin Does Not Own Registered Trademark “Real Estate 2.0″ http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/hot-news/redfin-does-not-own-registered-trademark-real-estate-20/2006/09/19/ Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:31:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Carson http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/hot-news/redfin-does-not-own-registered-trademark-real-estate-20/2006/09/19/#comment-110202 Carson Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:22:23 +0000 http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/hot-news/redfin-does-not-own-registered-trademark-real-estate-20/2006/09/19/#comment-110202 Why would they even attempt to claim such a broad term in the first place... Why would they even attempt to claim such a broad term in the first place…

]]> By: Best Of Sellsius 2006 http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/hot-news/redfin-does-not-own-registered-trademark-real-estate-20/2006/09/19/#comment-77593 Best Of Sellsius 2006 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:45:46 +0000 http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/hot-news/redfin-does-not-own-registered-trademark-real-estate-20/2006/09/19/#comment-77593 [...] Top 10 Women Real Estate Bloggers (best overall post. It helped define our role as promoters) Take The Sellsius° 101 Blog Post Challenge (best blogging community event post) Unzillowable, To Coin A Phrase (best meme post. Unzillowable is now Googleable. Can a t-shirt be far behind?) Mining The Elusive Unzillowable (best commented post. Plus, JF gets to dance with David G of Zillow) The Ultimate Zillow Poll (best poll post) Will Zillow Let Listing Owners Opt-Out Now? (best Zillow advice post) World’s First Unzillowable Listing (best use of unzillowable by a realtor. Jay Thompson owns the distinction) SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards: Sellsius° Receives Honorable Mention (best award post. They gave us a nice badge for the blog) Inman Real Estate Connect NYC 2007: Sellsius° Invited As A Panelist (best self-promotion post) 5 Ways To Market Yourself As An Expert (best read post. Maybe it was the free cruise tip that attracted 30,000 visitors) To Catch A Link, Use The Right Bait (best linkbaiting post) Linking Law & The Rabbit Holes of the Web (best legal post) A New York Ghost Story (best Halloween post) The Zen Blogger’s Manifesto (best linked by an A-list blogger) Redfin Does Not Own Registered Trademark “Real Estate 2.0″ (best news post that eased a fellow blogger’s mind) Sellsius° and Engadget Team To Save Tech Landmark (best collaboration post. We got to know Ryan Block) Blog Readers Save Bell Labs (best blog advocacy post) Craigslist Dialogue with Sellsius° (best Craig Newmark non-interview interview) Sellsius° Santa is Naughty and Nice (best holiday tradition post) Scent Marketing: Leading Consumers By The Nose (best search engine traffic post) Christine Forgione of NYHouses4Sale Interviews Sellsius° (best first interview: you always remember your first time.) Real Estate Blog Girl Chats With Sellsius° (best second interview. When 2 women get you, BOTH are the best) You Might Be A Blogoholic If... (best blog addiction post.) Boys Will Be Boys (best photo post) Hold All My Calls, I’m Too Busy Blogging (best video post) Craigslist Videos: NYC Real Estate Agents Want Me To Charge Them (second place video) There Is No Spoon (best experimental post) Sellsius° Blog Test: An Experiment of Matrix Proportions (best explanation of an experimental post) Blog Marathon: 50 Posts In One Day (best blogging first post. First blog to post 50 in a day) Realtor’s Allan Dalton Calls Zillow Carnival Act (best Selltoon) Real Estate Horror (second place) The Madness of Crowds (best play on a bestseller title. Plus, we got the chance to cite A Confederacy of Dunces) The Emperor Has No Clothes: Content Is Not King (best contrarian post) Sellsius° Exclusive: Trump Lands On Moon (best April Fools post) 2010: A Real Estate Odyssey (best futuristic post) Broker Gets MLS Grief For Listing $1 House For Sale (best Open Mike post) Ardell Looking Good at 50 (sexiest post) Centralia (hottest post) Blog Surfing Is Born: Sellsius° and Blogging Systems Collaborate on Wordpress Tool (our best (first) widget) 10 Ways to Spot A Liar (best Stumbleupon post) How to Overthrow A Tyrant: Fighting A Co-op Board Rejection (best post for NYC brokers) Inman Real Estate Connect NYC 2006 (best opening day of the Sellsius° blog post) [...] […] Top 10 Women Real Estate Bloggers (best overall post. It helped define our role as promoters) Take The Sellsius° 101 Blog Post Challenge (best blogging community event post) Unzillowable, To Coin A Phrase (best meme post. Unzillowable is now Googleable. Can a t-shirt be far behind?) Mining The Elusive Unzillowable (best commented post. Plus, JF gets to dance with David G of Zillow) The Ultimate Zillow Poll (best poll post) Will Zillow Let Listing Owners Opt-Out Now? (best Zillow advice post) World’s First Unzillowable Listing (best use of unzillowable by a realtor. Jay Thompson owns the distinction) SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards: Sellsius° Receives Honorable Mention (best award post. They gave us a nice badge for the blog) Inman Real Estate Connect NYC 2007: Sellsius° Invited As A Panelist (best self-promotion post) 5 Ways To Market Yourself As An Expert (best read post. Maybe it was the free cruise tip that attracted 30,000 visitors) To Catch A Link, Use The Right Bait (best linkbaiting post) Linking Law & The Rabbit Holes of the Web (best legal post) A New York Ghost Story (best Halloween post) The Zen Blogger’s Manifesto (best linked by an A-list blogger) Redfin Does Not Own Registered Trademark “Real Estate 2.0″ (best news post that eased a fellow blogger’s mind) Sellsius° and Engadget Team To Save Tech Landmark (best collaboration post. We got to know Ryan Block) Blog Readers Save Bell Labs (best blog advocacy post) Craigslist Dialogue with Sellsius° (best Craig Newmark non-interview interview) Sellsius° Santa is Naughty and Nice (best holiday tradition post) Scent Marketing: Leading Consumers By The Nose (best search engine traffic post) Christine Forgione of NYHouses4Sale Interviews Sellsius° (best first interview: you always remember your first time.) Real Estate Blog Girl Chats With Sellsius° (best second interview. When 2 women get you, BOTH are the best) You Might Be A Blogoholic If… (best blog addiction post.) Boys Will Be Boys (best photo post) Hold All My Calls, I’m Too Busy Blogging (best video post) Craigslist Videos: NYC Real Estate Agents Want Me To Charge Them (second place video) There Is No Spoon (best experimental post) Sellsius° Blog Test: An Experiment of Matrix Proportions (best explanation of an experimental post) Blog Marathon: 50 Posts In One Day (best blogging first post. First blog to post 50 in a day) Realtor’s Allan Dalton Calls Zillow Carnival Act (best Selltoon) Real Estate Horror (second place) The Madness of Crowds (best play on a bestseller title. Plus, we got the chance to cite A Confederacy of Dunces) The Emperor Has No Clothes: Content Is Not King (best contrarian post) Sellsius° Exclusive: Trump Lands On Moon (best April Fools post) 2010: A Real Estate Odyssey (best futuristic post) Broker Gets MLS Grief For Listing $1 House For Sale (best Open Mike post) Ardell Looking Good at 50 (sexiest post) Centralia (hottest post) Blog Surfing Is Born: Sellsius° and Blogging Systems Collaborate on Wordpress Tool (our best (first) widget) 10 Ways to Spot A Liar (best Stumbleupon post) How to Overthrow A Tyrant: Fighting A Co-op Board Rejection (best post for NYC brokers) Inman Real Estate Connect NYC 2006 (best opening day of the Sellsius° blog post) […]

]]> By: » San Francisco Real Estate http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/hot-news/redfin-does-not-own-registered-trademark-real-estate-20/2006/09/19/#comment-46033 » San Francisco Real Estate Sun, 07 Jan 2007 23:01:43 +0000 http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/hot-news/redfin-does-not-own-registered-trademark-real-estate-20/2006/09/19/#comment-46033 [...] Real Estate 2.0 Let Redfin buy the name Real Estate 2.0. It’s about as accurate as their business plan - sharing the ambiguity with the sole winner and daddy of cluster f$%k techie terms, Web 2.0. [...] […] Real Estate 2.0 Let Redfin buy the name Real Estate 2.0. It’s about as accurate as their business plan - sharing the ambiguity with the sole winner and daddy of cluster f$%k techie terms, Web 2.0. […]

]]> By: Starbucks Loses Trademark Case at sellsius° real estate blog http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/hot-news/redfin-does-not-own-registered-trademark-real-estate-20/2006/09/19/#comment-16126 Starbucks Loses Trademark Case at sellsius° real estate blog Sun, 15 Oct 2006 05:13:34 +0000 http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/hot-news/redfin-does-not-own-registered-trademark-real-estate-20/2006/09/19/#comment-16126 [...] Redfin Does Not Own Registered Trademark Real Estate 2.0 Hotels.com Is Generic Term Rules Trademark Appeal Board How to Lose Your Domain Name Listen to this podcast [...] […] Redfin Does Not Own Registered Trademark Real Estate 2.0 Hotels.com Is Generic Term Rules Trademark Appeal Board How to Lose Your Domain Name Listen to this podcast […]

]]> By: Three Oceans Real Estate» Blog Archive » The plot thickens… http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/hot-news/redfin-does-not-own-registered-trademark-real-estate-20/2006/09/19/#comment-15939 Three Oceans Real Estate» Blog Archive » The plot thickens… Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:23:00 +0000 http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/hot-news/redfin-does-not-own-registered-trademark-real-estate-20/2006/09/19/#comment-15939 [...] September 19th, 2006 by Kevin Boer, Alain Pinel Realtors Despite assertions to the contrary, it appears Redfin does not technically own the trademark “Real Estate 2.0,” at least not yet.Phew! Now I can keep those “Real Estate 2.0″ tags in my blog. [...] […] September 19th, 2006 by Kevin Boer, Alain Pinel Realtors Despite assertions to the contrary, it appears Redfin does not technically own the trademark “Real Estate 2.0,” at least not yet.Phew! Now I can keep those “Real Estate 2.0″ tags in my blog. […]

]]> By: sellsius° http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/hot-news/redfin-does-not-own-registered-trademark-real-estate-20/2006/09/19/#comment-15422 sellsius° Sat, 07 Oct 2006 16:01:42 +0000 http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/hot-news/redfin-does-not-own-registered-trademark-real-estate-20/2006/09/19/#comment-15422 Hi REBlog Girl We think it was a matter of having a layman doing a job meant for a lawyer. A lawyer would have wrote the letter properly. Unfortunately, it was not cleared with legal & the person who sent the letter did not realize he was using a legal term of art "registered". We just felt bad for blogger 2.0 & wanted to set the record straight. Thanks for commenting. Hi REBlog Girl
We think it was a matter of having a layman doing a job meant for a lawyer. A lawyer would have wrote the letter properly. Unfortunately, it was not cleared with legal & the person who sent the letter did not realize he was using a legal term of art “registered”. We just felt bad for blogger 2.0 & wanted to set the record straight.
Thanks for commenting.

]]> By: REBlogGirl http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/hot-news/redfin-does-not-own-registered-trademark-real-estate-20/2006/09/19/#comment-15408 REBlogGirl Sat, 07 Oct 2006 10:15:45 +0000 http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/hot-news/redfin-does-not-own-registered-trademark-real-estate-20/2006/09/19/#comment-15408 Great work guys. I was completely appalled at RedFin for their actions. First, whether the post was good or bad they should have been pleased that Real Estate 2.0 took the time to make a critique of their service. What's that saying- any news is good news. We get slammed on blogs all the time and all it does is let us know where we need to improve. If you are not willing to listen to the criticism and improve your product you don't belong in this business! Secondly, trade marketing a term so generic/obvious and going after a "small-fish" like RE 2.0 are the works of a petty company that is struggling to keep its head above water. Thirdly, from an ethical stand point, going after someone for a violation of a trademark you don't even have, makes me question their other business practices. This was nothing more than a case study in corporate confusion. Who is running RedFin anyway? Cheech and Chong? Great work guys. I was completely appalled at RedFin for their actions. First, whether the post was good or bad they should have been pleased that Real Estate 2.0 took the time to make a critique of their service. What’s that saying- any news is good news. We get slammed on blogs all the time and all it does is let us know where we need to improve. If you are not willing to listen to the criticism and improve your product you don’t belong in this business! Secondly, trade marketing a term so generic/obvious and going after a “small-fish” like RE 2.0 are the works of a petty company that is struggling to keep its head above water. Thirdly, from an ethical stand point, going after someone for a violation of a trademark you don’t even have, makes me question their other business practices. This was nothing more than a case study in corporate confusion. Who is running RedFin anyway? Cheech and Chong?

]]> By: Three Oceans Real Estate» Blog Archive » The plot thickens… http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/hot-news/redfin-does-not-own-registered-trademark-real-estate-20/2006/09/19/#comment-15378 Three Oceans Real Estate» Blog Archive » The plot thickens… Fri, 06 Oct 2006 23:43:24 +0000 http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/hot-news/redfin-does-not-own-registered-trademark-real-estate-20/2006/09/19/#comment-15378 [...] September 19th, 2006 by Kevin Despite assertions to the contrary, it appears Redfin does not technically own the trademark “Real Estate 2.0,” at least not yet. [...] […] September 19th, 2006 by Kevin Despite assertions to the contrary, it appears Redfin does not technically own the trademark “Real Estate 2.0,” at least not yet. […]

]]> By: Jim Lee http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/hot-news/redfin-does-not-own-registered-trademark-real-estate-20/2006/09/19/#comment-14650 Jim Lee Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:07:23 +0000 http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/hot-news/redfin-does-not-own-registered-trademark-real-estate-20/2006/09/19/#comment-14650 Even if Redfin has applied for a patent I don't beleive it will be granted because it's too generic and in common usage already. That's one of the reasons NAR couldn't trademark "MLS", it was already in common usage before anyone thought of it. I may change my blog to www.RealEstate2.0124555.com. NOT. ;-) Even if Redfin has applied for a patent I don’t beleive it will be granted because it’s too generic and in common usage already.

That’s one of the reasons NAR couldn’t trademark “MLS”, it was already in common usage before anyone thought of it.

I may change my blog to www.RealEstate2.0124555.com. NOT. ;-)

]]> By: immobilienportale.com - Immobilien Blog » Streit um Markennamen Real Estate 2.0 http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/hot-news/redfin-does-not-own-registered-trademark-real-estate-20/2006/09/19/#comment-14431 immobilienportale.com - Immobilien Blog » Streit um Markennamen Real Estate 2.0 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:41:02 +0000 http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/hot-news/redfin-does-not-own-registered-trademark-real-estate-20/2006/09/19/#comment-14431 [...] In den US-Blogs wurde letzte über die Auforderung des Immobilienportals redfin.com an einen Blogger diskutiert, der den Begriff Real Estate 2.0 verwendet hat. Es wurde darauf hingewiesen, daß der Begriff geschützt sei. So ganz stimmte das allerdings nicht, denn der Markenname wurde zwar angemeldet, aber noch nicht dem Antragssteller zugewiesen. [...] […] In den US-Blogs wurde letzte über die Auforderung des Immobilienportals redfin.com an einen Blogger diskutiert, der den Begriff Real Estate 2.0 verwendet hat. Es wurde darauf hingewiesen, daß der Begriff geschützt sei. So ganz stimmte das allerdings nicht, denn der Markenname wurde zwar angemeldet, aber noch nicht dem Antragssteller zugewiesen. […]

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