other companys copying your ideas

My wife has built up a new website over the last 2 months and it looks really good and is starting to take off really well.

Now one of our competitors has started to blatantly copy the layout and colours of our website and has started to copy most of our ideas as well.

What can we do to stop this???

Apart from starting an e-mail war that is.

[tigersaw]

Chop her dogs head off and send a hand grenade in the post

maybe ideas without the animal cruelty and violence would be better.

but I like your way of thinking.

[SoulKiss]

Not much you can do really

There is one sneaky thing you CAN do - PM me the URL of your site and their site and I will see if its possible

Are there any registered trade marks involved?

There's an offense called "passing off"

Originally Posted by thor

There's an offense called "passing off"

That's what was going through my mind too. I did learn something in all those lectures.

Originally Posted by thor

There's an offense called "passing off"

Yeah, sentence doubles if you pass off while you're in bed.

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Not much you can do really

There is one sneaky thing you CAN do - PM me the URL of your site and their site and I will see if its possible

PM sent.

Originally Posted by sarah

Are there any registered trade marks involved?

No trade marks.

Originally Posted by thor

There's an offense called "passing off"

I'll look into that thanks.

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

Yeah, sentence doubles if you pass off while you're in bed.

LOL, thanks for the warning.

Have you got a Copyright symbol and notice on the site?