From: law@iprights.com To: abuse_thepiratebay.org Subject: URGENT - FOOTBALL MANAGER TRADE MARK INFRINGEMENT Dear Sirs[?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /] Our client: SEGA Europe Limited We act on behalf of SEGA Europe Limited (â^À^ÜSEGAâ^À^Ý) in the enforcement of its Intellectual Property Rights in the [?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /]United Kingdom. As you will be aware, Sega is world famous and is recognised as being an industry leader in interactive entertainment. Sega, and its software developer Sports Interactive Limited (â^À^ØSports Interactiveâ^À^Ù) have recently announced that its new football management PC game â^À^ØFOOTBALL MANAGER 2005â^À^Ù is due to be launched later this month (see: http://www.sigames.com/news.php?type=view&article_id=1029). As a result of the recent publicity our client and Sports Interactive enjoy a substantial reputation and goodwill in the FOOTBALL MANAGER name. Further, SEGAâ^À^Ùs developer, Sports Interactive is the owner of a UK trade mark registration for FOOTBALL MANAGER under number 2,169,952. We attach details of the UK registered trade mark for your information. â^À^Øthepiratebay.orgâ^À^Ù website / FOOTBALL MANAGER 2005 It has come to our clientâ^À^Ùs attention that through the service provided by your â^À^Øthepiratebay.orgâ^À^Ù website, users are able, by clicking on a link on your website featuring the FOOTBALL MANAGER trade mark, to download an unauthorised and illegal version of our clientâ^À^Ùs new FOOTBALL MANAGER 2005 PC game. In this regard, your website is currently listing FOOTBALL MANAGER 2005 as number 1 in its â^À^ÜTop 5â^À^Ý and a substantial number of UK users used your services to download this game in the UK. By providing this service to UK users using the FOOTBALL MANAGER name, you are infringing the FOOTBALL MANAGER trade mark in the UK. Further, our client is concerned that due to the volume of illegal copies of our clientâ^À^Ùs FOOTBALL MANAGER 2005 PC game being provided via your service our client is losing substantial sums of money in lost sales. This email is ask that you immediately remove the link complained of, and to confirm that there will be no further misuse of the FOOTBALL MANAGER trade mark in relation to your services. In the meantime, our client reserves its rights in respect of any causes of action available to it in this matter and in respect of any claim for costs and/or damages against you. In this regard, your speed in complying with our requests will be taken into account. Yours faithfully Willoughby & Partners The Isis Building, 193 Marsh Wall, Thames Quay, London, E14 9SG, United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)207 345 8888 Direct Fax: +44 (0)207 345 4555 law@iprights.com www.iprights.com IMPORTANT: The contents of this email and attachments are confidential and may be subject to legal privilege and/or protected by copyright. Copying or communicating any part of it to others is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, copy, distribute or rely on this email and should please return it immediately or notify us by telephone. While we take every reasonable precaution to screen out computer viruses from emails, attachments to this email may contain such viruses. We cannot accept liability for loss or damage resulting from such viruses. We recommend you carry out your own virus checks. This message has been scanned for viruses by MailControl, a service from BlackSpider Technologies. [ Part 2, "trade mark.pdf" Application/PDF 36KB. ] [ Unable to print this part. ]