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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
Edmund Burke


We have a varirty of letters for your viewing pleasure. Since many of the letters are forwarded to us in PDF format, we have converted them into HTML so we can annotate them with our comments. We removed minor information that would identify the recipient of the letters and made the letters somewhat generic. You will notice a strong similarity between the demand letters. Will also notice our comments are very similar in each letter because the content is almost identical.

Much of the paperwork done by corporate lawyers is redundant. They have templates on the computer that they, or their paralegals use, to fashion letters and general pleadings, responses, motion, etc. Like automobile mechanics, we believe they have a fee structure for the various forms of paperwork that they generate and their clients are billed accordingly. Unlike an automobile mechanic who actually gets his hands dirty because he has to actually install a part, a coroporate need only make a few changes to a stock document and collect the full fee. We are sure that Continental Enterprises extracts a full fee for the poorly-drawn, deficient and almost identical letters below.

  • Hansen Beverage sample letter.
  • Heineken Brewery sample letter. This generic letter has been sent to more than one victim.
  • Jack Daniel sample letter. Unlike the other two, this letter includes a reference to submitting the "claim" to one's insurance company. Included as Attachment B was a form letter to the insurance company.
  • Insurance sample form letter. Note that this letter, like the demand letters, does not state specifics. All claims of infringement are in general terms.
  • Settlement sample letter. This settlement was after a lawyer for the accused infringer got involved. Note while the "claim" of infringement is mentioned, and "compliance" was suggested, there is a conspicuous absence of any "blame" to the alleged infringer and absolutely NO MENTION of any monetary settlement.

Initial contact and settlement isn't the only correspondance we have for your. Some alleged infringers contacted Continental Enterprises as directed because they had no idea what else to do any they got more verbage for their efforts.

  • One person was making lamps out of empty Jack Daniel bottles. When he protested that he was allowed to do this under the first sale doctrine, Darlene Seymour lectured him, incorrectly we feel, on trademark law. She conceded that litigation was not a good option for either party but she still wanted her blood money.

  • This Textron Letter is an example of why we consider Continental Enterprises and their lawyers to be nothing more than common thugs. The seller was ordering and selling what he thought were legitimate airplane models from a distributor. Continental Enterprises claims some of these models used the name "Cessna" without permission of Textron. They may be right; we don't know. Our issue with Continental Enterprises is that an innocent reseller of infringing goods, and there is no evidence to the contrary here, is highly unlikely to be assessed any sort of damages or fees by any federal court, especially when they stop after being notified of the alleged infringement. Continental Enterprises is only interested in the monetary settlement of which, as this letter shows, they get at least half and we believe most after costs are billed to their clients.

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