Intel sues man over Intel name
By INQUIRER staff: Thursday 01 February 2007, 11:28
INTEL FILED a legal action against Mr Sean Torongeau. Torongeau, it
said, is trading as PROINTELL and that might confuse people and
devalue Chipzilla's mark.
"By combining Intell with the generic and laudatory term 'pro',
Defendant has caused and is likely to continue to cause confusion
that Intel is the source of sponsor of Defendan'ts computer
services, or that there is an association or relationship between
the companies."
Intel lawyers said that in 2005 alone it sold over $38 billion of
Intel branded goods and services, and in the decade ending 2005 had
sold over $307 billion worth of products.
At Intel Store you can buy luggage, toys, stationary, pens and
pencils, Intel lawyers told the judge. We can't find much there
apart from weird links to all sorts of weird stuff....
Intel spent over $5.6 billion in advertising in 2005.
Intel owns US trademark registration number 2,251,962 so it can use
it on piggy banks, trophies, money clip pendants, charms, and belt
buckles. And jewellery.
And it has rights to use Intel on playing cards, paperweights,
rubbers (erasers), and bookends.
Oh, and 2,254,525 lets it use Intel on gym suits, hards, ties,
cardigans, scarves and infant rompers. And stuffed toys, board
games, bean bags, and Christmas tree ornaments.
PROINTELL repairs computers, designs websites, hosts
websites. Intel lawyers think PROINTELL will "tarnish, blur, or
dilute, or likely tarnish, blur or dilute the distinctive quality
of the famous Intel mark."
So it wants a district court to force Sean Torongeau to stop doing
this, sharpish
So like that, all the shop names in sim lim cannot any how
name their shops, else kenna from big companies .... 
