Re: Trademarks, random strings, sharing, reserved words

[Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com>]

At 09:38 AM 01/13/97 +0100, Paul Svensson wrote:
>On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Carl Oppedahl wrote:
>
>>What you probably don't appreciate is that neither owner (clue.com or
>>perfection.com) is breaking any law, nor doing anything that amounts to
>>trademark infringement.
>
>If this correct, then Hasbro will undoubtedly lose their cases, and be
>held to pay the cost of the court, including the defendants legal costs.

Unfortunately for these domain name owners, the courts do not make the
losing party pay the legal costs of the winning party.


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