{"id":17,"date":"2005-08-26T12:16:15","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T19:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/archives\/17"},"modified":"2014-12-04T13:55:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:55:53","slug":"taking-it-personally-is-registered-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/general-interest\/taking-it-personally-is-registered-elsewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"My tag line, &#8220;Taking IT Personally&#8221; is registered elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a computer consultant,  I thought my  tag line &#8220;Taking IT Personally&#8221; was pretty clever.  Well it was, and apparently it&#8217;s now registered as a trademark by someone else.  Although I&#8217;ve used it for nearly 4 years, they registered it now, and own it. They phoned me, and politely asked me to remove it, which I intend to comply with.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, besides being on my website, it&#8217;s on my business cards, my van,  my brochures etc. and those things may be slow to change.  They&#8217;re sending me a registered letter asking me to cease and desist, and that&#8217;s fine, but I still need another line.<\/p>\n<p>Since my business has gone in the direction of search engines, and I&#8217;m not more of an Internet consultant, I&#8217;m trying to come up with a short phrase that&#8217;s catchy, clever, and sends a message.<\/p>\n<p>So far however, the best I can do is &#8220;Location is everything&#8221; or &#8221; It&#8217;s all about location&#8221; and neither of those is very original or very good.<\/p>\n<p>* update*<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Got Serps?&#8221;\u00a0 was chosen \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a computer consultant, I thought my tag line &#8220;Taking IT Personally&#8221; was pretty clever. Well it was, and apparently it&#8217;s now registered as a trademark by someone else. Although I&#8217;ve used it for nearly 4 years, they registered it now, and own it. 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