How would you react if someone trademarked your name then demanded you pay a licensing fee or they'd sue for trademark infringement?

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[jennifer_bloom]

What I learned through an ad, whether true or not is that nobody can trademark your birth name. So if your mom named you Dan Brown, you can publish books under that name. But if you add so much as a hyphen or an extra word, you need a trade mark, so Dan Brown can use Dan Brown but he would need a legal certificate to use Dan Brown Publishers or Dan Brown Plumbers, or Daniel Brown Mascots even if his birth name is Dan Brown.

[DevikaButts95]

I'd tell them that's not how trademarks work. Lmao. It's not even how they work if I were named after their trademark.

[jshm2]

This is why you can't trademark names anymore.

DELL have a hard time, as do McDonalds. But they have had to concede that the trademark only holds in certain circumstances.

[Jdoyle]

I'd laugh and then block their number. This stands absolutely 0 legal ground even if by some absurd reason they did in fact manage to trademark it.

[Guy13]

I would have my attorney deal with the unnecessary annoyance and make their life miserable for fun.

[NotTacocaT6969]

I’d track them down and make them regret being alive.

[NostalgiaSenpi]

I'd countersue, stating that I existed before their trademark and they should therefore pay me royalties instead.

[Shark_61695]

Laugh in their face.