Re: Exclusive License

[David Collier-Brown <davecb@Canada.Sun.COM>]

Leo Smith wrote:
> 
> >David Collier-Brown wrote:
> :    The law firms compete for customers in a fairly free market,
> : and need legal protection so they can in fact compete without others
> : taking advantage of their good name and misapplying it to themselves.
> : To ensure that .law, .legal and .atty domains could compete, the
> : right of the lawyers to compete is diminished: they've just lost
> : trademark protection!
> ----------
> 
> If a valid trademark exists, then under trademark law no person may
> infringe on it. If your law firm holds a legal trademark in the field of
> law to the name JONE'S, and if your law firm meets other conditions as set
> forth under trademark law, then you would have the right to have the
> exclusive use of JONES.LAW, JONES.LEGAL, JONES.ATTY, or any other set where
> your legally trademarked name is used as part of the address.
>
  Then, as I've pointed out elsewhere, the only people who will
register in .biz are ones who wish to be confused with like-named
companies in .com, and we will be encouraging dilution of trademark
by creating such doamins.
  And if .biz happens to be operated out of some country which doesn't
honor foreign trademark, we've just created an international incident
(:-))

  All joking aside, .biz can compete with .com for new business,
as can any other domain synonymous with .com, but they lack name
recognition and risk being a magnet for lawsuits.

--dave
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