RE: Conflict resolution?

[Jim Browning <jfbb@atmnet.net>]

>From:  Vince Wolodkin[SMTP:wolodkin@digitalink.com]
>Sent:  Monday, November 18, 1996 1:20 PM
>
>I don't think it would hurt to try and quantify how the business
>world(those most likely to confront trademark issues) feels about new
>iTLDs.  You may find that, in terms of trademarks, new TLD's will
>provide no relief because anyone with a name registered under .com has
>likely trademarked it(or soon will), and if you try and use it under any
>other iTLD you may dilute their trademark(unless the iTLD is somehow
>product/category specific).  In other words, it may be too late for new
>iTLDs to solve the trademark issue.

This issue has been discussed on *many* forums, and IMHO, the bottom line 
answer is that the owner of a trademark of any significance is going to 
protect its use under *any and all* TLDs.  There are already cases of 
trademark owners seeking to protect domain names where their TM is a subset 
of the domain.

I think most of us in the business world can imagine ourselves on either 
side of this issue, as the poor victim of a litigating trademark owner, or 
as the victim of someone capitalizing on the money we have spent creating 
value in our name.

This is the reality of the environment within which we must find 
solutions...
--
Jim