Re: superkeyword

["Byron C. Mayes" <bcmayes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

They are the same "company," Cummings Design, a "web site design firm" 
in Laguna Niguel, CA (Orange County). Not registered with that city's 
Chamber of Commerce, but listed in several online business directories 
(including OC Connect at <http://occonnect.com/cities/lndir.shtml> and 
Developreneurs at 
<http://www.developreneurs.com/all/CA/LagunaNiguel.html>).

It could just be a one-person shop run out of someone's basement/home 
office, much like my "music publishing company" that gets stamped on 
the bottom of the music I write, or it could be more. Since I *can* 
find information about it including a location, one must assume that 
someone is doing business under the Cummings Design name, and has a 
product or service called superkeyword.

That being the case, asking someone versed in the law, as someone else 
suggested, would probably be a good CYA thing to do in case there's 
something legitimate that a bunch of techies and librarians aren't 
likely to catch. I wouldn't take any action beyond that based on a 
poorly-written email, though.

Byron


On Tuesday, June 1, 2004, at 02:13  PM, Seeman, Corey Glenn wrote:

> Don --
>
> This is interesting.  Maybe these are the same companies, but I see 
> possible two different groups claiming ownership of this term.
>
> 1997-2000 A.D. © SuperKeyword is a trademark of SuperKeyword Station.
>
> ©Copyright 1997-2003 SuperKeyword and keyword.com are trademarks of 
> Cummings Design.
>
> Maybe we can sick them on each other and they can leave libraries 
> alone.
>
> Corey
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: innopac-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:innopac-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Zhou, Don
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 1:54 PM
> To: IUG INNOPAC List
> Subject: RE: superkeyword
>
>
> Sorry I was not clear in my message:
>
> We received an email from a company called Superkeyword.net.  They 
> claim
> that they have the Superkeyword(s) copyrighted and wanted us to pay the
> license fee.
>
> Don

--
 Byron C. Mayes, MLS
 Head, Library Systems and Technology
 Temple University * Philadelphia, PA
 byronc.mayes@xxxxxxxxxx


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