Re: New TLDs and Registry charters

[dkaplan@terra-nova.fr (Daniel Kaplan)]

A (At) 19:21 7/12/96, Joseph J. Kim ecrivait (wrote):

>I just want to clear up a point here.  When trademarks become "generic" as
>you say in the case of "kleenex" or "aspirin" for that matter, they are _not_
>removed.  The trademark owners are, however, denied any offensive rights
>and so would have no real legal case against anyone using the term to
>refer to tissue paper in general.

Right, but that's not the issue. The issue is wether you can register a
"kleenex.com" or "kleenex.tiss" or "kleenex.xyz" domain. Clearly, if you
don't own a plumbing company called kleenex, or if your name isn't kleenex,
they have a case, they'll win in court, and I don't see why they shouldn't.
Because chances are, if you *did* register that name, you had some
intention of either stealing some of their customers, or harming them in
some other ways.

This is the real world...

Daniel

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