William and all,

William X. Walsh wrote:

> On 02-Mar-99 Einar Stefferud wrote:
> >  I think the best move for us to take is to just start using the
> >  Trademarking of Private and Prospective TLDs and be done with it.  It
> >  is a silly thing to try to use qas a hammer to get ICAN to back off.
> >  They do not listen to or respond to threats!  They react to real live
> >  action.  And since this nice TM avenue is just sitting there waiting
> >  to be used, lets just go for it!
> >
> >  Can we use the ORSC staging root so show that TLD names have in fact
> >  been put in commerce?
> >
> >  Cheers...\Stef
>
> I really don't think it could work.  The trademark could be made as only
> applying the naming of hosts within the private networks using those
> nameservers, and it could be argued (quite convincingly) that this would not
> apply outside those networks, since a government sanctioned process is underway
> to determine the infrastructure for naming of hosts on the generally connected
> internet.

  Again William you are showing your lack of understanding of the law here.
The fact that the DOC/NTIA is "UNDERWAY" in a process does NOT exclude
in an of itself existing law.

>
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> E-Mail: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 01-Mar-99
> Time: 17:30:55
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> "We may well be on our way to a society overrun by hordes
> of lawyers, hungry as locusts."
> - Chief Justice Warren Burger, US Supreme Court, 1977

Regards,

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