Re: Who really benefits from 60-day period?

["Craig A. Finseth" <fin@winternet.com>]

	...
   Any attorney (or anyone else) who thinks that a "60 day waiting" period will
   actually carry some standing in a court is smoking too much crack.

   The reality is that anyone who believes their trademark is being diluted
   will sue if they can't work it out privately.  Period.  The second reality
   is that to establish a trademark in the US, and probably elsewhere, you have
   to actually USE the mark in commerce.  
	...

As I read it, the whole idea of the 60 day wait has nothing to do with
who will or might sue who for what.

It's a useful convenience to help each other out.  If, in doing so, it
avoids a few law suits, so much the better.

For example, I recently obtained finseth.com.  Now, I don't think that
this name infringes on anyone's trademark and, under current US PTO
policies can not obtain a trademark on it (it's my name and I'm not a
nation-wide business).  However, it would have been nice to have the
opportunity to "offer it for comment" so that if I should happen to
inadvertanly infringe (maybe "finseth" is a trademark somewhere), I
can find out before I put a lot of energy into it.

Like phone numbers here in the US.  When you get new phone service,
they give you a provisional number.  This number may change during the
actual installation.  You can go ahead and give out the provisional,
but may have to re-do the work later (this happened to me once (:-().

Craig A. Finseth                        fin@finseth.com
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