[ifwp] Re: How not to define membership classes

[Karl Auerbach]

> Trademark should be included.
> This, of course, does not imply that they need to have 3 seats in the
> Council, but just that they need to be recognized as a valid group of
> interest.

If trademark is included then we also need the other valid groups who use
names outside of trademark:

        Small businesses

        Local businesses

        Churches

        Schools

        Charitable groups

        Amateur sports teams

        Writers

        Parents naming children

        People naming pets, objects, computers, or anything

        etc

In other words, everybody.

Creation of a trademark class is a statement that the creators of the DNSO
believe that trademarks have a bigger right than those who didn't get a
class.

Creation of a trademark class institutionalizes and entrenches this
presumed and arbitrary measure of strength of trademark interests.

It is improper to build a structure which prejudges interests and, by
doing so, largely prejudges and predetermines the outcome of the results.

                --karl--




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