Re: Trademarks, random strings, sharing, reserved words

[Das Devaraj <das@netcom.com>]

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Carl Oppedahl wrote:

> >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.

One reason why it pays to be the first to sue in US (better to be 
a plaintiff than a defendant).  How about other countries?  Thought 
that the courts in some other countries forced the losing side to pay
the reasonable court costs of the defendants.

Das Devaraj
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