Re: Interesting Domain Name Trademark Dispute (fwd)

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@imc.org>]

At 9:22 PM -0800 1/11/97, Michael Dillon wrote:
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>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

	I have no idea what the outcome of such a dispute would be, but
this KIND of dispute is an example of the reason some of believe that one
cannot "partitition" trademark claimants into portion of the name space.

d/


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