How to Ask Someone to Stop Using Your Trade Name

The intellectual property police have been out in force since the new year, protecting their rights to words like “win” and “without,” as in “negotiating to win” and “mediators without borders.”

I am told I can negotiate to lose or negotiate with, by or for women, but I cannot “negotiate to win,” even if I add the word She in front of the transitive verb Negotiates before going on to suggest that by negotiating, “she” can win.

And let the world be on notice, She is a word I’m gonna own, baby.

Only Mr. Thompson, I was told, has the right to annoint himself as the negotiator who wins, despite the plethora of winning negotiation books — such as Negotiate to Win by Patrick Collin and Negotiate and Win by Dominick Misino — and winning negotiation seminars, like the AMA’s Negotiating to Win and another company’s Negotiate to Win-Win (the key, apparently, in the redundancy)

I am also advised that I must eliminate posts from my blog concerning Mediators Without Borders which used to be the name of an organization of which I was a charter member (now Mediators Beyond Borders). My blog posts concerned Mediators Without Borders before another MWB told the new MWB’s Board that “without” had been taken, thank you very much.

Published by: admin on July 22nd, 2011 | Filed under Uncategorized



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