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Re:Unionized video game voice actors are considering a strike on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @11:53AM (#10265777)
Seems ridiculous to pay "stunt wages."
Here we go again. Instead of apologizing for your mistake and removing the advertising you are hiding behind a google loophole to justify the use of our trademark. If you really did not intend to deceive the searcher than you should have never used our trademark term to begin with.
Here we go again. Instead of apologizing for thier mistake and removing the advertising they are hiding behind a google loophole to justify the use of our trademark. If they really did not intend to deceive the searcher than they should have never used our trademarked term to begin with.
I can promise you we did NOT take out the ads to generate press. You are entitled to your opinion but I can assure you this was not done by our team.
The difference is they are not positioning themselves as Ebay. In the MeetingBurner example they do not say "Considering MeetingBurner?" positioning us as a separate platform. Theres is MeetingBurner - Feature rich web meeting software with the underlying link to GTM.
We are in the process of contacting Google now and protecting our trademark.

GoToMeeting uses competitor’s name in search ads to trick people

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/06/09/gotomeeting-uses-competitors-name-in-search-ads-to-trick-people-into-clicking-through/?utm_source=HackerNews&utm_medium=share%2Bbutton&utm_content=GoToMeeting%20uses%20competitor%E2%80%99s%20name%20in%20search%20ads%20to%20trick%20people%20into%20clicking%20through&utm_campaign=social%2Bmedia

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We are in the process of this now. We also do have a trademark that we will take steps to protect.