Re:60 Day wait..NSI case history

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 3:41 PM -0500 1/14/97, Leo Smith wrote:

Even tho' Leo is saying the 60 day wait is a burden statistically, the
50% reduction is wildly inaccurate. With the 60 day wait:

> David Graves, Manager of Internet Services at Network Solutions, provided
> the following statistical information on the 800,000 .com URLs:
>
> Number of Trademark "Complaint" Letters received by NSI = 1,600
>
> Number of Complaint Letters that were later followed up
> with Evidence of Trademark and a statement alleging
> harm to the trademark as the result of an existing .com = 850
>
> NSI classifies these 850 cases as the trademark "disputes".
>
> 850 out of 800,000...roughly one tenth of one percent of the total...
>
>  Had a wait period been in place at the time of registration, the number of
> trademark "disputes" would, in the best of possibilities, be reduced by
> 50%, thus reducing the 850 cases down to 425.
>

And this is really where the 60 day wait argument falls apart. The
monitoring of the domains published during the 60 day wait will alert
trademark holders to potential disputes. The helpless domain name
holders will be challenged by automatically generated form letters.

Would one of the trademark experts kindly insert the percentage of
challenges from the USPTO's trademark 30-day publication period here.
If the figure is 1%, then there will be 8000 disputes during the 60 day
wait. This is an increase of about 1000% over current practices, and
not a reduction by some imaginary number that cannot be verified (like
"50%").

What is the current USPTO dispute rate?

Regards,

Simon

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