Hello Jim,
Friday, February 23, 2001, 9:24:56 PM, Jim McAtee wrote:
> No, but the intentions of the domain registrant become more than a bit
> obvious. He either intentionally, or unwittingly registered a trademarked
> name. Which do you think it is? Right now the domain's only use appears to
> be for free email addresses, and that fact certainly won't help his court
> case. I'm amazed anyone would actually persue litigation in the matter.
> It's probably going to cost him some money in the long run.
So free email domains are not a legitimate use of a domain name?
Do you really think that using the name Foamy in an email domain name
is actually violating the rights of the company in question, and
causing confusion to consumers? The fact that hundreds of users are
using that domain name as a valid email service doesn't give him
legitimate rights to the domain name? Is he offering anything that
remotely resembles Gillette's company or products? Is there any
chance of consumer confusion?
Who decides what is a legitimate use of a trademarked word which also
happens to be a common usage word?
I did a quick search on the USPTO website on the word Odyssey. It's a
simple word, but there are some big names who have trademarks with
that word.
Under your logic, you should have known that before you registered
your domain name, and not registered it.
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Best regards,
William mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
