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Univera Life Sciences
Hall Of Shame Member
Added June 25, 2008

"Experience Renewal" is the battle cry of Univera Life Sciences. We think they should change it to something more in line with their half-baked Compliance Department's head-up-their-ass approach. How about, "Experience Our Stupidity"?

We offer you the following little tid-bit from the US Copyright Office, directly quoted from Circular 1, Revised July 2006, which states:

What Is Not Protected by Copyright?

Several categories of material are generally not eligible for federal copyright protection. These include among others:

Titles, names, short phrases, and slogans; familiar symbols or designs; mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering, or coloring; mere listings of ingredients or contents

Emphasis added.

For contrast, we offer you the head-up-her-ass answer from one Erica Clemmens, a Compliance Specialist (read - can't find a real job idiot) at Univera Life Sciences, where she attempts to explain why a perfectly legal auction for Ageless Xtra was terminated by Univera Life Sciences:

I understand you used your own picture and that is compliant; however, using text that is on our label in your description is not. Any writing on our products is still considered copyrighted material and may not be used in your description.

So, we ask Erica Clemmens, a Compliance Specialist at Univera Life Sciences, what part of mere listings of ingredients or contents do you not understand? Since Erica Clemmens does not list any legal qualifications but rather refers to herself as a Compliance Specialist, we have to assume she is some desk flunky being paid to troll eBay to harass legitimate re-sellers of the over-priced, over-hyped health products being sold by Univera Life Sciences.

We think Univera Life Sciences is hiding behind the very low standards that eBay has and uses very low standards to stop people from re-selling their products. They, like other health nut companies, Juice Plus comes to mind, want to control who sells their product. That's the real issue, control, not what's written on the label.

Univera Life Sciences is another example of why there is a need for severe civil penalties for trademark and copyright abuse by the rights owners. Clueless Erica Clemmens, on behalf of, and presumably upon orders from, Univera Life Sciences is wantonly placing small sellers in jeopardy of losing their eBay accounts by improperly, and we believe illegally, ordering eBay to terminate legitimate acustions that are not infringing. Shame on you Univera Life Sciences.

Rebuttals
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If you, or your company, have been referenced on these pages, and you would like the chance to post a rebuttal, we will post your rebuttal (provided it is in good taste) so others can read it. The rebuttal must be submitted in a format that can easily be converted into HTML. We reserve the right to alter the rebuttal to make it more readable. However, we will not alter the content (unless there is offensive material to be removed). We also reserve the right to comment on any rebuttal received. Emails protesting the content of this web site may be treated as rebuttals by us at our discretion.
We made this offer a very long time ago and as of July 2007, only AnimieHot.com, in our Hall Of Shame, has chosen to submit a formal rebuttal.