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I have heard that it's best not to acknowledge receipt of such letters at all. Can anyone confirm or deny that? -- Mike. On 6 December 2011 14:46, Roy Tennant <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I once got a "cease and desist" letter from a legal firm defending someone's trademark for "metadata". I mean, seriously. Perhaps obviously, I ignored it. It's still in my files somewhere. > Roy > > > > On Dec 6, 2011, at 6:31 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Ironically, I had (or there was) some trouble with the term "MyLibrary@NCState". Granted, the term was originally a variation of My Netscape, My Yahoo, and My Deja News, but all sorts of things followed it, like MyiLibrary, the Google Books My Library, and then there was a ALA thing. I'm not necessarily saying MyLibrary was the leader here, but an example of how trademarks (monikers) can be used, abused, and morphed. --Eric Morgan >