At 12:44 PM 2/27/99 -0800, William X. Walsh wrote:
>
>On 27-Feb-99 Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
>> At 02:57 AM 2/27/99 -0800, William X. Walsh wrote:
>> >
>> >I can't cite cases right now, but I remember someone else doing so on
one of
>> >these lists where filing a trademark or copyright or related filing for the
>> >purpose of circumventing an existing procedure in another legal process was
>> >grounds for having the filing disregarded in the existing procedure.
>> >
>> >I'll look for the reference, IANAL and all that, so can any of the attorney
>> >members please provide some feedback on this?
>>
>> Yes, but that mark was expressly made for the purpose of circumventing
>> another *legal* process. ICANN is NOT a law-making body, nor is it a bone
>> fide regulator. It is a private corporation. Don't come back with the
>> Federal Reserve either, they are operating under special charter of US
>> Congress. ICANN has been solely empowered by the US Executive. It has no
>> more power, to enact law or regulate, than MHSC does.
>
>As I said Roland, this is your take on that issue, I'd like to hear from
>someone with more background in this type of law on their take.
No problem, I invite Billl, Marty, et al to chime in. I don't think they
have thought of this consequence to their respective trademark stances
either. When WIPO, and crowd, start effecting DNS, and DNS is subject to
trademark machinations, there are many consequences, some of them
unintended. However unintended, they are usable, if not down-right useful.
This is actually a consequence I could live with.<grin> The cliche I would
direct at the trademark crowd is "Be careful what you ask for, you might
get exactly that. It just may not be what you want." <grin>
As a business operator, I will use whatever tools are available to further
the goals of the business (within ethical bounds, of course). In short, if
I have to live with the trademark lobby, I will use them for whatever
they're worth.
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