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Coalition To Advance The Protection Of Sports Logos Cyber Cop Hall Of Shame Member Added December 5, 2010

Last Updated - June 9, 2011

Like bed bugs, Cyber Cops seem to be everywhere. They are just as pesky, they like to suck blood and they have no real function except to annoy. It seems the Coalition To Advance The Protection Of Sports Logos ("CAPS") is not satisfied with just being a Cyber Cop - CAPS has evolved into trademark extortion as well. And CAPS claims to have some hefty clients as well: Major League Baseball Properties, the National Hockey League, the National Basketball Association, Collegiate Licensing and the National Football League. Impressive? But is it true? No too long ago, someone we know was attacked by Major League Baseball Properties through their New York office. So we ask, why would the MLBP be using some shit can outfit like CAPS if they are doing their own work? Does the MLBP know what CAPS is doing? Does the MLBP know who CAPS is? Does the MLBP care who CAPS is? Inquiring minds want to know.

Just because a company "claims" to represent some entity does not mean that they really have the legal right to send cease and desist letters and to make legal demands. The professional sports leagues have their own people policing for trademark and copyright infringement. So why would they knowingly affiliate themselves with a company like CAPS that sends out form letters that lack substance and particulars? And, from what we can determine, CAPS has no licensed attorney on staff. Demand letters for third parties are being sent out over the signature of non-lawyers. One recent demand letter listed some 180 universities and college bowls that CAPS claims to represent. Since the extortionist demand checks are to be made payable to Trademark Management, how does anyone really know ANY of the monies collected are going to the schools? If CAPS does not have a licensed attorney on staff, do you want to bet they also do not have an accountant? If, as we claim, they are lying to collect money then are they lying when it comes time to remit the money to the CAPS Members? We think so. It appears to be a logical conclusion.

Our opinion is the Coalition To Advance The Protection Of Sports Logos is pure Mickey Mouse (no offense meant to Disney). To begin with, right click on one of their web pages and you get that silly little error box that is supposed to stop you from downloading pictures. One, the code is faulty, so it does not work, and two, it is sooooo easy to get around it. That is soooo stoopid. FYI to CAPS - trademarks are not copyrighted.

Next, who is Trademark Management? The web site for CAPS, www.capsinfo.com, is owned by Trademark Management. The address for Trademark Management is 122 E. Poplar Avenue, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83814, which, by a strange coincidence, is the same address for CAPS! How about that? And, it appears that Trademark Management is owned and operated by the very same Lisa Uriguen Armstrong, also called Witch-On-A-Stick, who seems to own and operate CAPS! Wow. And, Trademark Management claims to have the same clients, plus a few more, as the same clients as CAPS and TM also lists CAPS as a client. Talk about padding ones resume.

The question here is why the duplicity? Why form two companies, both at the same address, both doing the same work, both with the same personnel? While it may not be, it certainly sounds nefarious. Who is hiding what from whom? Hmmmm? Tell us, Lisa. We will report any lies you tell us. And lies they will be we are sure. Because that is what Cyber Cops and trademark extortionists do: they lie, and lie, and then they lie some more. From an email we received we now know that one Lindsay Conn and one Hallie Alexander work at Trademark Management. Lindsay seems as doofy as her Hollywood namesake in her claims in the email. Telling someone to "conduct your own research into CAPS" seems awfully snotty instead of proving the documentation requested. And, as we stated further up the page, anyone with a fax machine and a willingness to lie can become a VeRO member so her statements about eBay lack and credibility. Perhaps she believes that having once been a paralegal gives her a better snotty posture? Claiming to be a "legal assistant" does not give one stature.

So, who is Lisa Uriguen Armstrong? She also sends out threatening letters to alleged infringers. We should point out that not all of the recipients of the letters are innocent - that many are infringing, but many are not. That said, it is the extortion demands to which we object. Most of these extortion demands are made under the color of legal authority, which from what we can see, does not exist. Like her partner in crime, Rhett Barney, it seems that while Lisa Uriguen Armstrong dispatches letters making legal conclusions and representations followed by cease and desist demands, and ending with threats of potential litigation, Lisa Uriguen Armstrong is not licensed to practice law in Idaho. It appears that at one time she may have been a paralegal in California, that does not qualify her under the law to present herself as the legal representative of major sports organizations. She wants others to follow the rules while she does not? Her defense? "I never said I was a lawyer".