Re: ADT Yard Signs

["Robert L Bass" <robertbass1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> How did you obtain an ADT sign "legally"
> without buying an alarm from ADT? My
> lawnsigns are my property...

That depends on what ADT may have done.  If they left the sigs there after the client stopped dealing with them the signs are
abandoned.  Considering they rarely even collect leased alarm systems, I doubt they're about to go around collecting old lawn signs.
Besaides, they don't put them up as a deterrent to theft.  They're advertising for the alarm company.

If ADT labels the sigs as company property and makes a reasonable effort to collect them at the expiration of the contract, then ADT
has the right to their return.  However, if ADT abandons them they become the property of the homeowner and he can do whatever he
wants with them.

> and covered by my tradename (similar to
> copyright protection...

Not really.  The material printed on them is covered under trademark and copyright laws but not the physical signs themselves.  It's
more a book which you write.  If someone in lawful possession of the book wants to sell it on eBay he has every right to do so.  He
just copy and can't publish the book.

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Regards,
Robert L Bass

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