Mary Kay Sues Yahoo! Over Alleged Trademark Infringement
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Beauty drama! Mary Kate filed a lawsuit against Yahoo in Dallas last week alleging trademark infringement. Photo: Amazon.com
The beauty giant alleges that the Web provider's email service inserts links and scroll-over pop-up ads to "unauthorized retailers in personal email messages that Mary Kay sellers send to their consumers."
According to the lawsuit, Mary Kay claims that this provides "'an unfair advantage for unauthorized re-sellers and other competitors," and that consumers may "mistakenly believe that the hyperlinks and pop-ups which include ads associated with Mary Kay marks were affirmatively included or authorized by either Mary Kay or the Independent Beauty Consultant sending the email,'" the source cites.
The cosmetics company is seeking an injunction as well as monetary damages.
veee 7-14-2009 @ 12:34AM
Best of luck to them given the whole it's a free email service that has a TOS that all their sellers agreed to where section 2 notes that they'll be embedding ads and pretty much anything else they like because that's how they support the service. I'm sure corporate couldn't be bothered to check into that before filing and as a result they'll end up paying attorney fee's for Yahoo in like 9 months.
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laura 9-14-2009 @ 6:58PM
First off I would like to say that Mary Kay RUINED my life. When i say ruined I mean RUINED. I invested 1000's of dollars at the advise of these commie recruiters and I did "OK"... I was told that they didn't like that I created an independent site because Mary Kay's site that I PAID FOR, received 0 traffic! I was terminated with over 10k$ worth of inventory and 3 kids.
Then when I opened an ebay account to sell what i had to FEED MY FAMILY and pay back the exorbitant credit card bills (FYI Mary Kay COMMIES: the Mtg companies don't TAKE makeup as payment) and they SUE ME!!!! I swear they terminated ME and then when I was selling what I RIGHTFULLY owned almost a year later, I got served with a lawsuit! Can Mary Kay stay OUT OF COURT for even a FEW months? If they're not suing someone they're getting sued. Says a LOT about how big of a fraud Mary Kay is. Mediocre products at ridiculous prices and commie pink nightmares that chase you around until you JOIN the CULT. Go to pinktruth or pinklighthouse and you'll see how they're "enriching" I mean RUINING women's lives. Apparently, after you PAY for products from Mary with YOUR money, Mary Lay can dictate WHERE, WHEN and HOW you can sell products that YOU bought... remember, they GOT their money.
I cannot WAIT for the day that i see an article saying that Mary kay has gone under! TRUE KARMA for ruining women's lives continuously!!!
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