Hey I'm looking for any kind of help,TLDR at the bottomI posted here when this all first started and I'm hoping someone has some answers. I had a youtube channel of 6 years that I was working on and have used the same name of the channel for all 6 years. 2 years ago someone else came by and trademarked the EXACT name I was using. He sat on it and waited until we had our first successful year with some growth then he filed for trademark infringement on our year in review video. I googled around called lawyers and got advice from them. Everyone basically said that the USA is a first to use country meaning simply because he trademarked the name I still have protection because I used it before him in the same format. Meanwhile I communicated with this guy trying to work something out and he said he would get back to me in a couple of days so we can work something out. But a couple of days is the window youtube gave for us to work something out so he just waited out the youtube system and youtube immediately TERMINATED my account. Not tell me to change the name or take the custom url, simply erased from existence.So from that time I sent in an appeal to them explaining the situation. A couple of weeks go by no response. Tweet to @teamyoutube and tell them I sent an appeal with no answer. "We've forwarded that to our team and will get back to you with any updates". Wait a couple more weeks still nothing. Tweet again "We've forwarded that to our team and will get back to you with any updates. We appreciate your patience. Tweet them a couple more times, get ignored. A month and a half goes by, I send another appeal and tweet STILL nothing. So now I say fuck it get a lawyer so I can cancel the guys trademark and get my channel back.Hire lawyer they say it should be a simple slam dunk especially if he's not even using it. File the petition to cancel. Hear from the guy who owns the trademark trying to compromise with me because this could cost both of us $20,000. Tell him I'm not interested in anything he is offering we either let it go through the legal process or I pay him to relinquish the trademark. A week later he decides to voluntarily relinquish the trademark.So where am I at now? His trademark is canceled, @teamyoutube doesn't respond to ANY of my tweets about my appeal. Sent a third appeal in with no response and have spent about 3 grand on the whole legal process.How do I go about getting my channel back? It's not trademark infringing (it never was), youtube has no point of contact to explain this and I'm out of options.TLDR; Youtube wrongfully terminated my account because someone trademarked my channel name. Hired lawyer to cancel guys trademark, guy decides to let me pay him to hand it over. Trademark is officially canceled. Youtube ignores any contact so I still have no channel.Has anyone had ANY success getting a channel back from termination? via /r/youtube
