RE: Conflict resolution?

[Leonid Egoshin <egoshin@genesyslab.com>]

>From: Jim Browning <jfbb@atmnet.net>
>>From:  Vince Wolodkin[SMTP:wolodkin@digitalink.com]
>>
>>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.

   The owner of a trademark can protect its use under *any and all* TLDs 
only if this TLDs are in the area of this particular trademark law.
If TLD is sited outside of this area or TLD assigned to registration
trademarks in another business sector (there law allow double/triple/...
trademark holders in different sectors) then trademark owners right
is limited.

					- Leonid Yegoshin, LY22