Re: trademark law

["Joseph J. Kim" <jokim@server.Berkeley.EDU>]

On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Net Sales wrote:

> Domain names are absolutely commercial in most cases.  That's why companies
> fight for them and fight to own them -- so web surfers who are using search
> engines can find them by typing in "chrysler" not just for the hell of it.
> 
> But I'm just a lawyer practicing Intellectual Property law and an
> independent business person, so how could I possibly know more about the
> law than you who does ISP Consulting.
> 
> And BTW, we lawyers get very very tired of people telling friends and us
> what the law is because of course laypeople are just lawyers without a
> license.  I wouldn't never presume to tell you how an ISP should or does
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> operate.

So in other words you _would_ presume to tell an ISP how to operate.  :-). 
Are you really a lawyer?  I've never met one who was so careless with their
grammar.  In any case you can make a point without faking credentials or
having a piece of paper that says "lawyer" on it. 

> 
> But that's just me

and that's just me.

> 
> Carol Busby Cricow
> Attorney and
> wife of owner of Net Sales.
> 
> carol forgot to mention that there IS caselaw, the most noticable being
> warner bros vs. roadrunner.com, where the little guy actually won one!
> rick cricow

For a list of cases go to:

http://www.law.georgetown.edu/lc/internic/recent/rec1.html

There's a brief discussion of trademark here as well:

http://www.law.georgetown.edu/lc/internic/domain1.html
http://www.aldea.com/cix/maher.html

just in case anyone's bored.