ISOGuru - An E-Mail Threat - For shame - Vinod Kumar must be nuts

[Marc]

I just received this:

Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:48:35 -0600 (CST)
To: Marc.Smith
Subject: Contact Marc Form - Main Site Feedback
From: "Vinod Kumar" <isoguruvinod@yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <200602100633.26642f316230@elsmar.com>
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The following message was set to you via the The Elsmar Cove Forums Contact Marc form by Vinod Kumar.

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'iso guru' is a trade mark owned by ISOguru, Inc., therefore, you are advised to drop any reference to ' ISO guru' for all your business material and website. Please confirm compliance ASAP. Thanks.

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Referring Page: index.php
IP Address: 66.75.23.19
User Name: Unregistered
User ID: 0

I really dislike people who make unfounded threats like this. Apparently he didn't even research to see if I was in some way using "ISOGuru" or "ISO Guru".

Personally, I wouldn't trust them (him?). He didn't even know enough to put in an appropriate subject in his e-mail to me. Not to mention he's using a Yahoo e-mail address. What's with that?

 

[Wes Bucey]

I just received this:


I really dislike people who make unfounded threats like this. Apparently he didn't even research to see if I was in some way using "ISOGuru" or "ISO Guru".

Personally, I wouldn't trust them (him?). He didn't even know enough to put in an appropriate subject in his e-mail to me. Not to mention he's using a Yahoo e-mail address. What's with that?

File this under "Kooks to ignore"

This guy himself is in violation of "claims" by ISO in Switzerland about the use of "ISO" without permission in commercial advertising.

His claim is indefensible. Odds are he doesn't have the werewithal to file a lawsuit and he would have a difficult time, indeed, defending against a counterclaim of malicious barratry

barratry = The offense of persistently instigating lawsuits, typically groundless ones.

 

[kei_ko]

Interesting to find this at the isoguru.com web site:

About the founder and ISO gurus

Vinod Kumar, founder President of ISOguru Incorporated, is a BSME (Mechanical Engineer) and an MBA with more than 25 years of experience in the field of quality and environmental management systems. He was President/General Manager of Aerospex Corporation till 1992 after which he has been in the consulting/auditing/gap analysis and training business as a co-founder of Quality 2000 Incorporated, and has helped several companies to achieve ISO 9001, QS 9000, ISO/TS 16949, AS 9100, ISO 13485 and ISO 14001 certifications. Vinod Kumar has also been on the panel of experts in international forums on quality system standards. Many of his clients have had not even a single minor nonconformance in their certification audits. This is the level of expertise he brings to you in this field.

i wonder why he needs to use yahoo mail

 

[D.Scott]

You should see all the nice things I say about myself on my site. I haven't looked recently but I think I am actually able to fly. :mg:

Dave

 

[Randy]

I've met this guy...Made less of an impression on me than a snowflake would on a Tank.

 

[Claes Gefvenberg]

I really dislike people who make unfounded threats like this. Apparently he didn't even research to see if I was in some way using "ISOGuru" or "ISO Guru".

Indeed. I have been around here for several years, and have never seen Marc use either expression to promote business material or website, so I really don't know what this guy is on about.

As it happens a search for "ISO Guru" produced 389 hits. If his intention is to take on all of them he will have his work cut out for him. "ISO Guru" and "vinod kumar" on the other hand, produced no hits at all.

Finally, "ISO Guru" is a widely used expression, trade mark or not.

/Claes

 

[Randy]

We in fact have a registered "ISO GURU" here in the Cove.

 

[Craig H.]

OK, who is going to report this yo-yo to the real ISO? I will if you like. He is the one hijacking a trademark, and, frankly, the sooner someone like this gets slapped down, and the harder they get slapped down, the better. What a jerk.

 

[tomvehoski]

I surfed by the iso1stop.com forum recently (has always been pretty dead there) and noticed that they had to change to quality1stop after threats from ISO themselves about trademarks. It is now quality1stop.com.

 

[Jim Wynne]

I just received this:


I really dislike people who make unfounded threats like this. Apparently he didn't even research to see if I was in some way using "ISOGuru" or "ISO Guru".

Personally, I wouldn't trust them (him?). He didn't even know enough to put in an appropriate subject in his e-mail to me. Not to mention he's using a Yahoo e-mail address. What's with that?

I hastily typed up a reply to the idjit, complete with references to ISO's trademark defenses. I've attached it; use it and/or edit it as you see fit, or not.