Real Estate Website Sued For Publishing Public Data By Law Firm
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What happens when you have a litigious company who feels aggrieved because a real estate published information about a couple of employees buying a home.
You sue, of course!
BlockShopper.com, a long tail real estate website that publishes details of home transactions in the communities it covers, is being sued by the Jones Day law firm after doing a post on 2 of it’s associates. They are being sued for using the name, hyperlinking to the site, and supposedly creating the impression that the firm has a relationship with the blog site.
A judge has allowed the suit to continue as pretrial motions could not determine the validity of the complaints.
This is the risk of blogging when some can use the power of a nuisance law suit and no real cost to attack anyone mentioning you.
But the real cost is to the law firm. Sure they will drive the folks at BlockShopper.com nuts and cost them some money, but they forget that by doing this they will achieve a great deal of notoriety which will tarnish the firms reputation.
Another great example of winning the battle and losing the war.
The company inadvertently crossed swords with Jones Day when it published information about two of the firm’s young associates who bought condos in upscale neighborhoods in Chicago.
Jones Day contends BlockShopper’s use of its name, hyperlinks to its Web site and use of information from its site create the impression that Jones Day is connected with BlockShopper. Jones Day is claiming trademark infringement and dilution.
BlockShopper says its trademark is completely different from Jones Day’s so there is no plausible way the two could be confused.
It says all the information on the BlockShopper site is public, pulled from county records or available on sites such as Jones Day’s that describe lawyers and practices. via cleveland.com.
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Comment by james on 29 July 2009:
Jones Day will not be phased by the so-called negative publicity or pr. The types of clients they attract will neither stay with them or leave them, based on this suit. A non-factor.