From: Doug Barton (no email)
Date: Mon Jul 24 2006 - 15:35:26 EDT
Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> Someone's possesion of a domain name contining a string you have a
> trademark on *in one specific line of business* *does not constitute an
> infringement of your trademark*.
>
> Unless they *use it* *in conjunction with a product or service name*
> *in the appropriate line of business* *in a jurisdiction where you hold
> trademark rights*, they're not infringing you, and registering the
> string in 435 TLD's just to make sure they can't is the worst kind of
> stupid.
If I can borrow from Randy, I encourage my competitors (and more importantly
the competitors of my clients) to operate in the manner you describe.
Doug
-- If you're never wrong, you're not trying hard enough
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