| Links: My Other Web Site... Canadian Business Magazine Story It's Good Business White Collar Crime Democracy Watch Copyrights & Copy Wrongs Business Ethics Resources Gloria Hansen, Coquitlam, BC |
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Battling Updated soon |
| According to an article posted on the Internet, regarding the ISP's vs. Bell Canada, lawyer John F.C. Hammond makes the following observations:"...the presumption that Bell will employ a strategy of using its vast resources to raise every conceivable legal argument at every turn in an effort to financially and morally exhaust its opposition and delay judgment. This is a standard strategy employed by litigants who enjoy a financially dominant position." Mr. Hammond estimates as the potential cost to the litigants to be between $250,000 - $500,000 . |
Pompous liar and rip-off artist Bob MacKerricher, president of Northern Gift Specialties Inc., mascot supplier for the Official Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games (and president of Northern Gifts, an RCMP licensee) defrauded of me of my business and intellectual property rights regarding Call-Me cards. He has lied to the RCMP about everything connected to the matter. |
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In reaching a recent deal with SBC Communications, Bell Canada Enterprises was represented by 15 lawyers. |
Warning
"You are ...advised that Bell Canada will aggressively enforce its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law, including the seeking of criminal prosecution." - excerpt from the Bell Direct web site - on Trademarks |
"Bell
Canada even tried to claim 'The Net' as its registered trademark. They
prepared to sue  Canadian
ISP's who used 'The Net' in their advertising. But the trademark was
challenged by the small ISP's and Bell backed down. -from
"Cyberworld Monitor" column by Frank X. Sowa, Boardwatch, May
1996 |
Branding Ambassador Bell Canada Enterprises has been representing Canada in the U.S. as a "Branding Ambassador" - in an effort to boost Canada's high-tech image! Canada's so-called-branding ambassador exhibited extreme lack of "branding" foresight by not registering the international dot com address, BCE.COM which they later tried to take from owner Michael Peck, who had beaten them to it.
Bell Canada advised Mr. Peck, owner of BCE.COM & Berkeley Camera Engineering: "We have received the mandate to monitor the content on the BCE.COM web site and anything that infringes the rights or the reputation of BCE Inc. or its officers or employees will be dealt with through Court proceedings." |
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Phil Lind, Rogers Communications vice-chair, described
the business practices of the former provincial monopolies - including BC
Tel - as sinister, savage, menacing and anti-competitive.
- The Vancouver Sun May 25,
1995
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Athough Bell Canada did not want to spend money obtaining the web address BCE.COM, a site that hundreds of thousands of people have been ending up at, mistaking it for Bell Canada's web site: Bell Canada recently committed the company to a $100-million deal to rename The Molson Centre in Montreal "The Bell Centre".
$100-million so that Bell Canada can have it's name on a Big Building????? |
Ottawa may have handed Bell Canada
Enterprises and the B.C.E. telephone group billion-dollar assets without  public review by giving two prime satellite positions to Telesat Canada
for next to nothing. -
Globe and Mail March 30, 1996 |
An Edmonton electronics entrepreneur won a David-and-Goliath victory over Telus Corp. after a 12-year legal battle over patent infringement. He was awarded $375,000 . The conflict centered around a technology that he and two others invented called a Facsimile Mobile Interface Device for wireless transmission and reception of faxes, date and voice transmission. -The Province, Nov.5/99 |
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small Manitoba telecom company sued Manitoba Telephone Systems for
hijacking their Internet advertising technology.
Jason Beck, director of marketing for World Star Holdings, said his company could have earned up to $100 million over 10 - 20 years. One week after they began marketing the technology they were contacted by MTS to develop the phone company's Internet Yellow Pages. He said that MTS repeatedly put the project on hold. "They just continued to stall and stall," said Beck. Under an agreement, World Star was prohibited from selling the technology to other companies. Soon MTS launched its own on-line advertising service without World Star. Beck said he believed MTS entered into the contract and negotiations right off the bat with the intention of keeping World Star out of the marketplace. - The Vancouver Sun, Dec. 24/96 |
Bell Canada, B.C. Tel (now re-named Telus), SaskTel and other Canadian Provincial telephone companies under the Stentor marketing umbrella felt free to use my trademark "Call-Me" without compensating me. The trademark "Call-Me" was covered in a contract I signed that was drawn up by Bob MacKerricher's lawyer Paul Taberner and OK'd by mine. Previous to my signing the final revised contract, Mr. Taberner wrote a letter confirming that his client and I had already made the deal. The RCMP has a copy of this letter and a copy of the signed contract. The RCMP has proof that I am the originator of the trademarks I am making such a fuss about. The date the trademarks were used preceded any telecom use of both the Call-Me and Call-Me Card trademark (and preceded any use of the trademarks in the USA.) |
| Former Canadian Labour Congress president Bob White described Bell (Canada) as "outrageous, irresponsible and just plain greedy." - Maclean's Jan.25/99 | According to an article in the
Vancouver Sun on June 26/98: Bell Canada, along with several other firms ,
hired social auditors (also known as ethical auditors). "Such
companies believe ethics are good for business."- Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun Ethics Reporter |
Here's SaskTel's internet use of my trademark Call-Me Card which they apparently paid Bell Canada for using in their advertising. After complaining to Saskatchewan Premier Romanow about SaskTel's use of my trademarks, the premier turned the problem over to Don Ching, President and CEO of SaskTel (a crown corporation). Mr. Ching wrote a letter suggesting I contact the legal department of Telus regarding the problem. This I did and ended up talking to Telus lawyer Tom Sides. He refused to answer any questions "because he didn't feel like it". He said that he "could get the file if he wanted to, but he didn't feel like it." The last thing he told me was to "go ahead and spend money on lawyers if you want answers" and then abruptly ended the conversation by hanging up on me. Mr. Romanow was advised of this but did nothing." - |
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