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Discussion: Ultracade and the Mame Trademark
Paul Olson:
Been thinking some more on this. Companies selling MAME cabinets do not compete with Ultracade machines. At All! Ultracade is sold for commercial use. MAME cabs are sold for home use.
His new line, Arcade Legends, is a new competitor to the already established home MAME cab market. Dream Arcades should be able to collect damages. Foley misrepresented his status as registered trademark owner. This caused ebay to shut down an auction(s?) of an established direct competitor. That can't be legal.
Paul
jdjuggler:
This guy may know more about what Foley is using in his product.
Anyone know this guy?
ebay link
I have emailed USPTO - And Ebay, stating that they may be abetting illegal trademark claims made by David Foley!
I don't want to be shot down if I ever decide to sell my Mame machine on Ebay. This is insane! He is after all of us, don't think for a minute that he will ever "work with the Mame community".
He out for blood and money!
Everyone, Please get involved. Emails, certified letters to USPTO, phone calls, feedback to Ebay support.
Also, we still need some legal help with all of this. Anyone???
JD
edited by saint to fix wrap
SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: pcolson on February 21, 2005, 04:05:41 pm ---Been thinking some more on this.
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SirPoonga:
I was also thinking about this. I do understand Foley's point of view. it can be reasoned that mame cabinets have been taking some of his sales. However, as pointed out, they are for different markets. And Foley has gone aobut it in the wrong way. Registering the trademark (IE trying to steal something that isn't his) is not good business practices. What he should have done is for the cabinets that are illegal to prove they are. Though most on ebay do not come with roms so therefore most are legal. They claim they can play 4000+ games. This is true, legally too. Just download 4000+ shareware games....
IntruderAlert:
I'm not sure if you guys saw this second letter posted on the Ultracade site
..looks like he's retracting
http://www.ultracade.com/openoffer.pdf
--- Quote ---February 21, 2005
An open offer to the M.A.M.E. community.
Our recent actions to protect our products have met with a lot of controversy. Many
people have been quick to judge and make accusations about what we are attempting to
do, and what we have already done. It is my understanding that the spirit of the
M.A.M.E. community is
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