Comments on: Sams.com Is NOT Sam’s Club But.. Ad Is

By: Richard A. Lewis

Richard A. Lewis — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:02:17 +0000

I would think this would just be them being helpful in trying to make sure people make it to the site they are looking for (if they were looking for Sam’s Club) Although using the “affiliate link” could make it a bit shady.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:53:15 +0000

“there’s a large range of technical books sold under the ‘Sams’ name– I’d argue they have a trademark of their own to claim.

“I wouldn’t argue that they have their own trademark to claim for ’sams’,”

Guys,

No danger of any TM infringement claim from the Sam’s publihing group.

From the About US page on http://www.informit.com/:

InformIT is the online presence of the family of information technology publishers and brands of Pearson, the world’s largest educational publisher.

InformIT is home to the leading technology publishing imprints Addison-Wesley Professional, Cisco Press, Exam Cram, IBM Press, Prentice Hall Professional, QUE, and Sams.

By: Jamie Zoch

Jamie Zoch — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:25:28 +0000

I wouldn’t argue that they have their own trademark to claim for ‘sams’, but is it OK to display an ad for a confusingly similar mark off of the forward of the Sams.com domain is the question? I didn’t run across the ad on any other Sams pages, just the sams.com forward page.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:12:05 +0000

Err… there’s a large range of technical books sold under the ‘Sams’ name– I’d argue they have a trademark of their own to claim.