Re: Who really benefits from 60-day period?

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 7:49 AM -0500 1/13/97, Albert Tramposch wrote:

> The intent of the .tm spaces is not to replace trademark law in the other
> spaces.  This is made clear in section 6.2.1 of the IAHC draft:
>
> 	It should be made clear that there would be no obligation on
> 	the part of any trademark owner to register in any of the
> 	trademark-related domain name spaces, or to be listed in any
> 	associated trademark-domain name directory.  In addition,
> 	there would be no negative legal consequences to a trademark
> 	owner for not having a trademark-related domain name or not
> 	being listed in a trademark-domain name directory.  In
> 	particular, the existence of a trademark-related domain name
> 	space does not imply that trademark rights in other top-
> 	level domain name spaces are negatively affected in any way.
>

I don't understand this reasoning. Surely the trademark holder is
obligated to defend (and therefore register) his/her mark to prevent
it's misuse. Failing to do this could result in the loss of the mark.
Isn't this the complete opposite of what this paragraph is saying?


Regards,

Simon

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