Re: Who really benefits from 60-day period?

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Carl Oppedahl allegedly said:
> 
> At 11:28 AM 01/08/97 -0500, Vince Wolodkin wrote:
> 
> 2.  VW proposal in place.  Covetous trademark owner awakens to the
> Internet, tries to grab a domain name that is a couple of years old.
> Domain name owner pipes up, saying "oh, but during the first sixty days of
> our domain name we didn't actually use it."  Judge looks at domain name
> owner with puzzlement as to why something that they did or did not do, a
> couple of years ago, makes any difference now.  Lawsuit drags on until the
> domain name owner runs out of money.

This isn't what the Domain owner would pipe up, however.  The domain
owner would remain silent about using or not using the name, and
instead pipe up "The name was published in the established place for
publicizing new domain names for the established 60 day period.  If 
plaintiff was concerned about use of the name they could have perused 
that list, and they did not."

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