UK practitioners are being warned to take care when trading over the internet after a St Albans-based dispensing optician was threatened with legal action by a Californian company operating under a website with the same name.
Dispensing optician Robert Roope, who owns vintage eyewear website www.retrospecs.co.uk as well as the practice Roope Opticians in St Albans, has been threatened with legal action by lawyers representing www.retrospecs.com.
Roope launched www.retrospecs.co.uk in 1999 but he said he was unaware that the US-based site existed until six years later when lawyers threatened action.
The case went quiet until two months ago when Roope received fresh threats from lawyers ordering him to stop trading in the US and to pay a $5,000 fine.
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