Simon Cowell makes 'donation' to Rhythmix charity, which he almost destroyed..

meer53

Simon Cowell is a businessman. His company made a mistake, they have made a payment to the Charity to make sure they aren't out of pocket, plus the Charity have received HUGE publicity from this "mistake"

Is there really an issue here ? Even the biggest companies make mistakes, this one has been sorted.

Equaliser123

kittykarate wrote: »

The issue was that Simon Cowell's lawyers still had actions outstanding against the charity over the name, even after the band had renamed. The charity had to pay for lawyers to defend this, even when Cowell appeared to be the good guy.

What were the "actions outstanding against the charity" for?

kittykarate

Simon Cowell's legal team didn't withdraw their trademark requests after the girl group's name changed. So the charity were still left defending the loss of trademark in the UK and Europe. While it seems trivial, if they didn't defend the trademark they could have lost their name to Cowell. It could have just been missed internal communication within Cowell's organization, rather than maliciousness, however, it still would have left the charity administrators stressed and worried about their future.

texranger

Considering Rhythmix does not have a registered trademark against it then mr Cowell could of easily trade marked the name and the charity would not have been able to do anything about it

Equaliser123

kittykarate wrote: »

Simon Cowell's legal team didn't withdraw their trademark requests after the girl group's name changed. So the charity were still left defending the loss of trademark in the UK and Europe. While it seems trivial, if they didn't defend the trademark they could have lost their name to Cowell. It could have just been missed internal communication within Cowell's organization, rather than maliciousness, however, it still would have left the charity administrators stressed and worried about their future.

I think you are getting confused about an application for a trademark and a trademark enforcement action.

Equaliser123

texranger wrote: »

Considering Rhythmix does not have a registered trademark against it then mr Cowell could of easily trade marked the name and the charity would not have been able to do anything about it

They wouldn't have needed a registered trademark to prevent it. Provided there was a likelihood of confusion if the TM was registered, that would be sufficient to stop it.