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Oh she so was. ðGlad you enjoyed my story. That happened about 24 years ago. I can laugh about it now but you can imagine how stressful it would be to have someone sue you for half a million dollars.
Lin Laurie
206.900.1861
www.linlaurie.com
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Subject: Re: Snagit
Way to go Lin!!! Hit back against the arrogant and sloppy lawyer! I'm laughing.
Mark Giffin
On 5/15/2020 12:52 PM, Lin Laurie wrote:
> Change my site name voluntarily or just update the last three pages?
>
> She never asked me for anything.
>
> This was a very contentious person (she was the internet lawyer of the year who referred to me as "little girl" although I was in my early 30's at the time). She filed a bogus case in federal court for 1/2 million dollars with charges that had the wrong statutes attached to them, thinking I'd just not read the actual statutes and curl up and give up my business name.
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> I found out that when someone sues you in federal court, you can countersue for free, so I countersued her for a million dollars and the internet lawyer of the year had a mark against her and her company until the suit was resolved. Her company couldn't get credit until the suit was resolved or something like that.
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> You don't want to call me little girl and assume I can't research case statutes or read about the rules regarding trademark usage since she was suing me for infringing upon hers.
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> What she didn't know is that I had thought about going into business law and took several business law classes in college.
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> Lin Laurie
> 206.900.1861
> www.linlaurie.com
>
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> Just guessing, but I would imagine that if they had simply asked you nicely if you wouldn't mind updating your site, you might have done so voluntarily.
>
> Bob
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 3:33 PM Lin Laurie <linlaurie1 -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:
>> I think they just pulled it down and didn't have the resources to do anything with it. I was stunned to find out that they had it down as long as they did.
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>>
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>> They also searched my web site and tried to tell the judge that when
>> they found I missed 3 changes out of 150+ page site, that I was
>> acting in bad faith, and possibly criminal, and that was when the
>> judge told them to pay the cost for me fixing my site. So they had
>> the resources to pay for that, but not doing a change to their pages
>> to just add the â to their pages and their site was smaller. Maybe
>> they couldnât figure out how to make it show up as superscript in
>> HTML. LOL
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>>
>> Lin Laurie
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>> 206.900.1861
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>> www.linlaurie.com
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>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> <techwr-l-bounces+linlaurie1=hotmail -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> On
>> Behalf Of Emoto
>> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2020 12:15 PM
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>> Subject: Re: Snagit - _used to_ be SnagIt, I believe
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>> They probably hired some of those offshore senior web developers. This is all top secret James Bond kinda stuff, don'tcha know.
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>>
>> Bob
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>> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 3:08 PM Mark Giffin <mgiffin -at- earthlink -dot- net> wrote:
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>>> that's hilaroious - they shut down their website for 6 months to add
>>> their logo to every page??
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