--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], bbrigante <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], bbrigante <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > http://www.riverfronttimes.com/issues/2006-03- 08/news/news.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > THAT is interesting.. Have Faroukh and the TMO resolved their > > > differences? > > > > > > > ************* > > > > Nope. The judges don't have the money to pay for probationers' > > instruction fees, so Anklesaria is doing it off the ranch. The TMO > > is not suing him because the probationers would not ordinarily be > TM > > customers, not having the money or inclination to start TM outside > > of the context of being sentenced to do so. This is a contrast to > > the case of the Florida TM teacher being sued for siphoning off > > regular TM customers in an area with an active TM center. > > > > Bob Brigante > > http://geocities.com/bbrigante > > >
> That's not the only or even main issue with the lawsuit, as far as I > can tell. The TMO is trying to maintain control of the trademark. If > they haven't granted Farokh dispensation to teach outside the purvue > of the recertified teachers, they had better, otherwise his lawyers > may be able to use that oversight against them. > *********** The Florida teacher is saying he teaches TM, but I forgot that Anklesaria is no longer using protected trademarks -- he's calling it the "Transcendental Stress Management program," so there is no basis for the TMO to sue him (unless the TMO can make the case that the public would confuse TM with the TSMP). This is a move you would expect from an attorney, while the Florida teacher is trying to take on the TMO head-on, and it's unlikely that he will win, since the TMO has always protected its trademarks: http://www.enlightenedsentencing.org/news-spring-2004.htm ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
