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"I will withdraw my advert in Yellow Pages and Yell.com unless Yell.com ceases its unfair and unfounded legal threat against the owners of "Yellowiki.com" but only if 10 other people will do the same."
— Richard Quick, http://www.richardquickdesign.com
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Yell Limited have accused Yellowikis.com of "Passing Off"
The largest publisher of yellow pages directories in the world have written to Paul Youlten (co-founder of Yellowikis) saying they believe Yellowikis is "plainly purporting to be associated with (Yell)" and "this amounts to a misrepresentaion... which may result in third parties associating (Yellowikis) with our client (Yell)" ... "The continued presence in the market of your website will cause substantial damage to (Yell's) good will and reputation".
These are very serious accusations.
Yell's solicitors are demanding that:
- the Yellowikis site is shut down
- control and ownership of the domain name is passed to Yell
- compensation is paid to Yell for loss of profits
- Paul and Rosa agree never to set up another competitor to Yell
Paul Youlten and Rosa Blaus (co-founders of Yellowikis) have taken legal advice in London and believe that Yell's claims, while sincerely made, are without merit.