Branding problem

Yeah but it's a legal scam. They tell a lie to win a client, at least that's what I believe that they did. I have no way to prove that

Sounds like a scam.

John McCaskill

Happy to hear you have a Lawyer friend to help you through this :)

Mini Manatee

Thanks!

Best of luck in this unfortunate and uncalled for battle!

I live in Brazil. Yeah, here there is another department to register a Brand. Unfortunately, I did not want to pay for registering my Brand, at the time I felt like this was a waste of money but now that I have many Stores and social media presence, losing this would give me a setback. Yeah, they are doing something close to that on Youtube but to companies (even small ones). A Friend of mine that is a Lawyer is guiding me in the process.

I'm not doing all that well yet but I am trying. Ascending and so far so good! Thanks!

I’m not sure what country you are operating out of, but if its the US you should look into Common Law Trademarks or see if your country has an equivalent. https://www.gerbenlaw.com/blog/an-overview-of-common-law-trademark-rights/ That said, there are people who abuse systems to basically legally scam. This is seen on platforms like youtube with “copyright claimers” who hunt for alleged or actual copyright abuse, report it as if they own it because youtube goes more by algorithm automated claim processing than human operators, then goes to the company asking for a bounty for it. The person may have played ten seconds of a public domain melody then gotten claimed for a Madonna song that is unrelated. Youtube demonetizes them for sometimes weeks while claiming 100% of their ad revenue themselves (which is why youtube does not change the system), plus their place in the recommendation algorithm is permanently damaged. The company sometimes pays out for such fraudulent abuses but do nothing because youtubers having fear of their company is preferable to the copyright bounty hunters not working for them, or even worse if the hunters extort creators leading to someone actually violating copyright being ignored. All above the table activities, the kinda shit you’d see John Oliver covering. Ultimately your brand is essentially that of an artist as far as I am aware, which provides further legal grey area in your favor though I’m not fluent enough in legalese to explain how.

Thannak

Definitely a scam though not an uncommon one. People will take businesses that are doing well and register their name and then extort them to get the name back. I wish you all the luck in dealing with this issue and hope everything turns out in your favor.

Hardcleave