Re: trademark law

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 8:51 AM -0800 12/12/96, Michael Dillon wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Net Sales wrote:
>
> > >There is no current law regarding domain names.
> >
> > current tradeamrk law would apply to any use of a trademark, including
> > domain names.
>
> This is an oversimplification. Trademark laws do not apply to
> non-commercial use of trademarks.

Uh... false. Any kind of dilution of the name is an infringement.

> And there is no current legislation or
> case law that deals with domain names.
>

Uh... false. Case law exists.


Simon

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