November 14, 2006

Good bye statgraphics™

Our "friends" at Statgraphics™ (Statgraphics® is a registered trademark of StatPoint, Inc) sent me unfriendly letters and threaten me "appropriate legal actions" in case I use this URL any longer, and force me to move further posts to a new site.

New posts will be at

http://statisticalgraphics.blog.com

I will give further details on their strange behavior later ...
(Some software companies seem to invest more money into lawyers than into good software developers)

Posted by Martin at 21:10:01 | Permanent Link | Comments (4) |
Comments
1 - Why are you knuckling under to bullying? Have you considered taking the time to find a good lawyer, avail yourself of the customary free initial consultation, and get a professional to look over Statgraphics's legal nastygrams? (Comment this)

Written by: Brian at 2006/11/15 - 01:30:22
2 - As we have indicated in our correspondence, we greatly appreciate the work that Martin has done to create his blog. It is an excellent source of information on statistical graphics. I have referred many people to it. Unfortunately, the law requires that we defend our trademark or we could lose it. We registered it 26 years ago, and it is a valuable asset of our company. I regret that our request is viewed as "unfriendly", since that was not our intent. I will be adding the new link to our web-site so that everyone can find it easily. (Comment this)

Written by: Dr. Neil Polhemus, CTO, StatPoint, Inc. at 2006/12/08 - 00:27:54
3 - In defense of the company (which I have zip relation to), trademark law really does require this kind of annoying "vigilance", and selectively looking the other way really isn't an option if the company wishes to defend its trademark in the future. (Comment this)

Written by: John at 2007/02/15 - 06:19:25
4 - John,

there is nothing to defend here, 'cause nothing was attacked. I like your suffering tone, that should make us blogger beleive that laws force you to missbehave ...

So you also think using www.statgraphics.org is a trademark protection? How come that e.g. Apple and Dell don't block their .org sites - any ideas? Well, the answer is probably easy: They have good products and are successful companies, so they don't need this unfair bullying. (Comment this)

Written by: Martin at 2007/02/15 - 21:51:41
Write a comment