Re: Who really benefits from 60-day period?

[Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>]

On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Carl Oppedahl wrote:

> >Also, you are presuming that a judge would make case law that gives that
> >60 day waiting period special powers. I think that in any case before the
> >courts involving the 60 day waiting period, trademark owners will not want
> >to see the 60 day period create a case-law precedent for diluting their
> >rights after the 60 days and so they will take measures to prevent that. 
> >I expect that one of those measures will be to directly launch suit
> >against CORE and the IAHC. In this instance, there will be no possibility
> >of interpleader.
> 
> Why not?

Because the suit will be filed directly against CORE/IAHC in an attempt to
prevent any case-law precedents from being set based on CORE/IAHC's 
60 day policy. 

> >By creating the 60 day waiting period they already have taken sides
> >with the trademark owners who do not currently have a domain name. 
> 
> Wrong.  By creating the 60-day waiting period they are taking sides with
> the domain name owners who would like to have stable domain names.

I doubt many potential domain name owners would see it that way.


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