MonaVie is Liquid Google?!?! (Trademark Infringement Inside) |
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I got an interesting e-mail the other day. It came from “dmdamerica@[somedomain].com.” This company wanted to let me know that they have “Liquid Google” shirts for sale on Ebay. I decided to grab a screenshot for all to see the listing.
MonaVie Liquid Google
As you can see they clearly use Google’s trademark. I’m going to go out of limb and guess that Google didn’t authorize his trademark to be used in this manner. As you can see from the write-up this person is marketing the shirt as a tool for MonaVie distributors:
This shirt catches so many eyes it’s incredible! The Liquid Google shirt implies that Mona Vie is the “New Google!” If 12 years ago the founders Google approached you and said to you, “we have a technology that’s going to change the world” and asked if you would like to be an investor, would you say yes or no to their opportunity? Most people probably brushed them off and I bet they regret that every time they go online!!. Well Mona Vie is Liquid Google, and people are still oblivious to this great product and business opportunity. This shirt is for the distributor who feels they have the best product for the world! Shirt has the Pulse Bottle, the new Mmun Bottle, Active Bottle and the Emv can. If you are into branding yourself, this is the perfect shirt to wear. People will ask you the meaning of it which is a perfect conversation starter to introduce them to the business.
So the idea is to capitalize off of Google’s trademark to sell juice.
Originally posted 2010-01-18 14:38:31.
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January 18th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
wow, i almost want to get one just to make a mockery of it…..but i ain’t to endorse anyone that would make this.
January 20th, 2010 at 7:53 am
Yikes, this certainly seems like it would be a huge gigantic neon trade mark infringement NO-No. I’ll probably be shaking my head over this all day.
People are simply amazing.
January 20th, 2010 at 8:02 am
I should mention that I alerted MonaVie about this and not are they only going to after this guy for this shirt (obviously for the Google trademark), but they are going after him for the rest of his shirts as they use MonaVie trademarks that they haven’t approved of.
I’m not seeing his items on Ebay anymore.
January 21st, 2010 at 12:11 pm
It would be hilarious if Mona Vie and Google both sued him for this shirt. I wonder if they could both be awarded the revenue from the shirts as one remedy, or if they’d have a split it
Some people are incredibly stupid.
March 25th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
you violated trademark infringement by saying “Inside!” (like Intel Inside, j/k!)
If they’re liquid Google, how much is their stock worth?
April 22nd, 2010 at 3:34 pm
OMG! I almost fell out of my chair when I saw this image! LOL! Good luck to the ebay person who was selling this shirt! I bet he’s one of those distributors trying to make money on the side while he scams others to buy this piss juice!
April 22nd, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Thanks Rommel, I talked with MonaVie personally and they shut the guy down. Of course MonaVie wants to be the one to sell MonaVie products, so in this case it’s a rare win-win.
April 22nd, 2010 at 5:15 pm
Ha! They promptly shut down the guy who’s selling T-shirts, which Monavie can’t profit from, yet when it comes to stopping their distributors from lying about the juice and promoting it as a cancer cure, suddenly they go deaf, dumb, and blind. Such hypocrisy!