Re: [AlpacaTalk] Similar Farm Names
You can register your farm name with the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Basic:
http://www.uspto.
How to register:
http://www.uspto.
Dick McCoy
Foxrun Farms Alpacas
Cato, NY
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From: Heather Zeleny
To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogro
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: [AlpacaTalk] Similar Farm Names
I was the first farm to use the name "West Wind" with AOBA, starting
back in 2001. I registered the domain name "westwindalpacas.
registered a few alpacas with "West Wind" without reserving that as my
breeder id, until I saw a new farm in Illinois also using that farm
name. I then reserved "West Wind" with ARI. However, there are now
three other farms using "West Wind" or "West Winds" as their farm name.
Including the one in Illinois, there is one in New York and now one in
Virginia. So, I have abandoned my use of that as my farm name and have
chosen a new one, White Lotus Alpacas, reserving "white Lotus" as my
new breeder Id and whitelotusalpacas.
for sale! :)
That's how I dealt with it. Hopefully no one will choose to use White
Lotus as their alpaca farm name. As I said, I reserved White Lotus with
ARI, and WLA has already been reserved many years ago. I believe W L A
was also reserved, and has long since ceased to exist, so I have no
current "competition" for that naming.
Heather
Heather Zeleny
White Lotus Alpacas
Creswell, OR
541.895.0964
Holistic Farm and Elite Fleece
http://www.whitelot
http://tech.
On Nov 25, 2008, at 12:41 PM, AmyJoLabbe@aol.
> How do you all handle similar farm names?
>
> I am Alpacas at Dragon Fly Farm. This was not really by choice.
>
> We have owned Dragon Fly Farm since 1998. We bred Thoroughbreds, Selle
> Francais, Paints and Ponies for a decade. Due to the decline and
> suffereing of the equine industry we have decided to retired from
> breeding and focus on rescue-reselling horses in need. Still focusing
> on quality, but we will not be producing our own stock. We sold most
> of
> our youngsters, gelded our stallions and sold off many. We are down
> from 28 to 12 with a end goal of 8 (our old ladies!).
>
> When we liquidated our herd we bought alpacas. It is a great industry
> coming from horses. They are not slaughtered (yet), they are not
> abused/neglected or suffered at the hands of terrible trainers, there
> is no performance aspect to showing, they are easy keepers and eat a
> fraction of what a horse does, they poop a fraction, they require less
> daily care, showing is less expensive and the owners are less
> crabby/competitive/
> still plenty of room for reasonable profits.
>
> Our dilema - our FARM NAME.
>
> There is a Dragon Fly Farm (according to AOBA) although I have never
> seen anything from them. There is a Dragon Fly Alpacas. And there
> there
> is us. We want to stay Dragon Fly Farm. We have a great reputation of
> charity, fundraising, supporting the locals, our sales and breeding
> program is well established (in horses). We have just been approved to
> open Connecticuts ONLY Alpaca only 4H group! While we are changing
> direction from horses to alpacas, we are not closing our doors. We
> will
> still do horses, just not breed them. But we are planning to breed
> alpacas (hence why we purchased 16 females and 2 males). But if you
> google Dragon Fly Farm and alpacas - you end up at Dragon Fly Alpacas.
> We chose Alpacas at Dragon Fly Farm as it was the only thing we could
> think of to get our core name in.
>
> I am considering changing our name....but its a hard decision because
> of the hard work we have put in all these years. My husband doesnt
> want
> to give up our name. But we want to make sure that our customers can
> always find us - and not our competition.
>
> How do you farms with similar names handle it?
>
>
>
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