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Thank you, that is exactly what my attorney and I are doing. I share the exact same sentiment. :)

Certainly, I will definitely keep you guys updated. Today I met with my attorney, he is sending an initial "We received your shot over the bow" letter. Next week we are going to draft up and send over a formal response requesting the specific alleged violations of their IP.

Is that illegal? I don't think so.

Thanks for the compliment regarding the name! As far as the concern you brought up, there are other weapons besides guns; ones more sophisticated, such as swords, nunchucks, etc; also, martial arts and other combat techniques are taught on a regular basis, all around the world, to and by people in all walks of life. It is my duty not to hold any biases, nor enforce any unreasonable censorships regarding the education process. In case you didn't notice, the category picture does not contain any guns in it at all, those are 2 foils crossing, they are used in fencing which is a highly regarded combat sport. Regardless, you are welcome to your beliefs as they are your own and I will not attempt to dissuade you.

I never had a developer account with Smarterer. They shut that down before I could ever apply.

I signed up on their site at some point to take skills tests.

I do not currently have much traction with my site, but it is something I have been working on for a very long time. This is a passion of mine and I think their claim is completely baseless.

Yeah, that's my worry. I am already dealing with another baseless IP lawsuit, however in that case I am counter-suing.

I'm not sure, I know Apple has both successfully and unsuccessfully litigated such cases.

That's like saying that if Mark Zuckerberg had a MySpace account that they could sue him for creating Facebook. No-where in the terms of service does it say anything about creating a similar service, even my attorney agrees that there is no basis there.

"They suggest that your previous association with them gave them rights in certain intellectual property (presumably, copyright and/or patent) which you are using in your website. If your code is wholly original, they may claim copying if the design or approach is derived from a prior work they (or their predecessor in interest) created. However, that does not extend to the concept or ideas."

The letter is extremely vague, I have a meeting with my attorney on Wednesday regarding this situation. I will post an update as soon as I have one.

I submitted it, thank you!

Hey thanks! I didn't even know about that.

I'll definitely check it out.

Thanks Meira!

Thanks for the input, that is our next step. Working on marketing it properly. We have updated the site to reflect more to what Kinspir is exactly.

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