Interesting Domain Name Trademark Dispute (fwd)

[Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>]

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Date: Sat, 11 Jan 97 19:52:06 -0800
From: Michael L Judson <judson@linex.com>
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To: inet-access@earth.com
Subject: Interesting Domain Name Trademark Dispute
Resent-Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 21:36:10 -0700 (MST)
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Here's an interesting domain name trademark dispute.  We host a domain
name in the .org heirarchy.  The administrative contact for this domain
recently received a message from someone who had the same name in the
.com heirarchy and says that that name has a US trademark.  Assuming
this is true, I doubt that this person has a legal leg to stand on
since they currently hold a domain name in the .com heirarchy and the
.com heirarchy is a more appropriate heirarchy for a commercial
organization.

This isn't an issue about someone "stealing" a domain name, but about
someone claiming they have a right to a particular domain name in
every heirarchy.  Has anybody else encountered a similar situation?

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