Recently I received an email from a legal beagle, presumably about this less than flattering post.
From: M—– M—– hidden-email@shaklee.com
Date: January 6, 2006 1:51:28 PM PST
To: –@bonniewren.com
Subject: Contact from Ballpoint Wren ReaderM——- M—- wrote:
I recently found your website containing Shaklee products. Please understand that Shaklee does not allow the use of Shaklee trademarks in any Internet ad (see pages 23 and 24 of the Statement of Privileges and Responsibilities of Shaklee Family Members (P&R). Thus, you must remove all Shaklee trademarks from your website, or use a pass code to protect the site. Shaklee trademarks include the “Shaklee” trade name, Shaklee product names, photos or graphics of Shaklee products where the label is visible, Shaklee logos, and Shaklee owned photos or phrases. You may, however, have a link to your shaklee.net site (if applicable).Please notify me via return e-mail when you have completed these actions. Don’t hesitate to contact me at the above e-mail address if you have questions.
M——– M—–
Claims Administrator
Legal Department / Assisting Field Administration
Shaklee Corporation
Ms. MM seems to think I’m a Shaklee operative!
I must stay calm.
From: Ballpoint Wren < --@bonniewren.com>
Date: January 8, 2006 6:36:38 AM PST
To: M—- M—- hidden-email@shaklee.com
Subject: Re: Contact from Ballpoint Wren ReaderDear M:
Thank you for contacting me with your concerns, but there’s a misunderstanding somewhere. I do not have any internet ads on my site, much less ads using Shaklee trademarks.
I don’t even have a copy of the “Statement of Privileges and Responsibilities of Shaklee Family Members (P&R),” so I couldn’t read pages 23 and 24 if I wanted to.
Frankly, I doubt I am even a member of the Shaklee family–in fact, I am positive I am not because if I was, I think somebody would’ve mentioned it to me by now. Like my mother! Ha! As if Mom could ever keep something like THAT a secret.
Still, I don’t want any big time corporate attorneys to think I’m treating their trademark concerns lightly, so rest assured that I have never and will never feature an internet ad containing a Shaklee trademark on my site. Never, ever, ever… I swear! You can count on me to follow through on this one!
Take care,
Bonnie Wren
AKA Ballpoint Wren
Tags: NutriFeron, Shaklee
Makes you wonder if “Shaklee” is a product of a Nigerian Banking scam!
If your ever looking for a job as legal secretary, you know i have an opening….bring Mojo 🙂
OMG –
so let me get this straight – they come to you and say hey – what about this, then blast you (what was it 30+ comments, OH MY!) when you look at it – sheesh – these people need to get a life –
Psst – if their product was that good to begin with, why would they feel so threatened by your observations? s’all I’m saying 😉
Hey Bonnie, please tell me it was you that used a trackback on my blog and not Shaklee!!!
I did the trackback for the Super Domingo post, Michelle. It looks like it must’ve hit you for trackbacking last night even though it was set to publish this morning!
That’s no good. Those “Super” posts always contain LOTS of trackbacks. Yikes!
Most of the people commenting on my NutriFeron post were sincere people, Dennie. A few were a bit cranky. But I am 100% positive I’m not a member of “the Shaklee Family.”
You would think that if you were a part of the family, they’d have sent you a Christmas card…with more on it than christmas lights…tehehe!
I’d refer them to page 23 and 24 of the Mojo manual….”If you leave it down low, it will be gone!”
Don’t ask me what I meant….i’ve got bad sinuses right now!
Ah. Do they have any legal muscle anyway? Looks like fair comment to me (freedom of speech and all that).
I used to have some whimsical buttons that looked like M&M’s candy which given my company name of M&M Enterprises I thought was harmless enough. But no! Mars Inc wrote to me courteously reminding of their ownership of the copyright to the images. So I took the chicken option and removed them 🙁
Ouch! Too bad about the M&M buttons. A cute idea!
Ms. M.M. only seemed concerned that 1) the image was used in an “internet ad” (nope!) and 2) I wasn’t following the directives as stated on pages 23 and 24 of the “Statement of Privileges and Responsibilities of Shaklee Family Members (P&R).”