https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Member-To-Member-Support-DO-NOT/VeRO-using-a-sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nut/qaq-p/4842890 <P>I'm deeply disturbed at Caffe Nero for reporting my listing for a 'personalised initials on a rubber stamp with a coffee bean background' as infringing their trademark!<BR /><BR />I'm prepared to produce these stamps as novelty items for coffee lovers. The artwork is entirely my own. I designed it myself without a thought to Caffe Nero material. Using a split coffee bean in the background isn't something that's unique to Caffe Nero, and nor is having an oval outer frame around that design.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>So I've replied to ebay's VeRO people and am waiting for them to return to me with anything but a canned reply.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I've also emailed the Caffe Nero VeRO identity and await a reply from them into the issues of their legally registered trademark, pointing out to them that they do not even have the featured letter Z anywhere in their name, and that trademarks which monopolize a single letter are frowned upon unless there is a substantially unique artform to the character and a unique font is used (like the MacDonalds famous M trademark).</P> Mon, 23 May 2016 13:45:16 GMT red-z-stamps 2016-05-23T13:45:16Z https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Member-To-Member-Support-DO-NOT/VeRO-using-a-sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nut/qaq-p/4842890 <P>I'm deeply disturbed at Caffe Nero for reporting my listing for a 'personalised initials on a rubber stamp with a coffee bean background' as infringing their trademark!<BR /><BR />I'm prepared to produce these stamps as novelty items for coffee lovers. The artwork is entirely my own. I designed it myself without a thought to Caffe Nero material. Using a split coffee bean in the background isn't something that's unique to Caffe Nero, and nor is having an oval outer frame around that design.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>So I've replied to ebay's VeRO people and am waiting for them to return to me with anything but a canned reply.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I've also emailed the Caffe Nero VeRO identity and await a reply from them into the issues of their legally registered trademark, pointing out to them that they do not even have the featured letter Z anywhere in their name, and that trademarks which monopolize a single letter are frowned upon unless there is a substantially unique artform to the character and a unique font is used (like the MacDonalds famous M trademark).</P> Mon, 23 May 2016 13:45:16 GMT https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Member-To-Member-Support-DO-NOT/VeRO-using-a-sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nut/qaq-p/4842890 red-z-stamps 2016-05-23T13:45:16Z