Just think about it – your parents have named you Microsoft. Now you grow up and you are signing this on your credit card, receipts, bills… your home address, salary accounts reads this. Can Microsoft – the IT mammoth – sue you for infringing upon their name?
Or what about baby Reebok? Will the sports company sue you?
You know why I got thinking on this seemingly crazy idea? Well, it started with my pet Alsatian. His name is Diesel – I had given the folks an option of Diesel and Antonio, they went with the former. Anyway, his mum’s name was Pepsi I have found out much later. So, I am thinking can the Pepsi guys say hey that the liquid beverage named bitch (pardon me, but that is what a female dog is called) is their property?
Are you actually aware that there are many names that have become public property like say Benetton, McDonald or Sothebys – surnames that command respect and bags of green…the currency kind.
What if your name becomes as famous as Calvin Klein or Giorgio Armani, eh? Will you go around like a second fiddle to the famous, or would you opt to change it? What if you already have a blog, Second Life avatar and an email address by that name? Can the patent lawyers hunt you down and make you relinquish your identity?
If that made you paranoid, go out relax and order a nice cheesy pizza at Dominoes…or is that your name… hahahahaaaa (devilish)
