Not actually. K2 is demanding that they cease and desist the SALES of the AM-p Illusion, according to the letter they posted on their website:
http://www.actionmarkers.com/amNews/...20Illusion.pdf
Quote:
Dear Sir:
We represent Worr Games Products, Brass Eagle, and K2 in intellectual property matters. Our clients own several valuable intellectual properties including United States patents, trademarks, and/or trade dresses that protect their unique paintball markers which are sold under various names including the trademark name Autococker(r). We have reviewed your products and we were shocked to discover that your company currently sells paintball markers that infringe upon these properties. Your intentional copying of our clients' products has caused excessive customer confusion that cannot continue unabated.
We therefore demand that you immediately cease and desist from all sales of the infringing products, namely those products currently known as the AM-P Illusion markers, and remove all for sale markers that infringe upon our clients' properties. Additionally, we further demand that you guarantee to us, in writing, no later than June 25, 2004 of your full compliance with our demands.
Your failure to comply with these demands will result in our recommendation to our clients that they seek immediate legal recourse by taking any and all appropriate legal measures to protect these valuable property rights. As your attorney will confirm, such legal measures include litigation in Federal Court, which is often quite expensive. We expect to obtain injunctive relief, which will prevent you from continuing to sell these markers, and to recover sufficient money to compensate our client for the tens of thousands of dollars in harm you have caused in addition to treble damages, attorney's fees and costs.
Should your attorney wish to discuss any aspect of this matter or advance other ameliorative actions, please feel free to contact our office before June 25, 2004.
Sincerely,
KEISLING PIEPER & SCOTT PLC
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So you see, it's not about the Autococker name, which Action Markers has never used (to my knowledge). They're saying "your markers kind of look like our markers. Gimme $10,000+ or stop! Even if it's not illegal, we will sue your ass into debt!"
Which is really, fairly rude of them. To say the least.
Or WGP has turned over their company to some pretty filthy money-grubbing ****wads to say the most.