Hey all...just popping in for a minute before I head back over to the fair...
I've thought long and hard about whether or not to post on a certain subject, and I have tried to ignore it, but it keeps gnawing at me. There isn't a super nice way to put this, so I'm just going to do the best I can...
Recently I saw a post from someone, which I believe was on Facebook, stating that she had chosen a farm name, that is VERY similar to mine. This person lives less than an hour away from me, and also raises large fowl salmon Faverolles. I am not pleased.
The real reason I am throwing this out there, is to clarify for people that are new to the Faverolles breed, and also to put the word out there to people that already know me. I get A LOT of traffic on my Facebook page and my website from people that were just doing an internet search, or from word of mouth. I don't want people to get confused by this, if they start typing in "Clover" and "Oregon" and "Faverolles" if multiple farm names start coming up. I do NOT want her name associated with my birds, or my name associated with hers. There is a huge difference in our lines.
Bottom line here for the newbies is: do your research and make sure you know where your birds are coming from. And I ask that, of the rest of you, if you hear of someone getting stock from "Clover-something" in Oregon, PLEASE ask and make sure they know whose birds they are getting.
Thanks.... :/
Different country so unsure of laws but don't you have legal ways to make them change their name? Here we can't register a business name in the same state that is too close to another similar business. You can't trade without registering a name. So here you could report the use of a name like that.
Well, it's similar but not the same, so not sure there's anything I could do. I doubt she's registered. The system checks for names in use, but if it's not exactly the same, then you can do what you want, unfortunately.