Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

[Bill Lovell]

At 04:10 PM 3/1/99 -0800, you 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?
>
The best thing for you and everyone else to do is retain competent local
counsel and solve the problem up front, rather than having all of us out
in the boondocks cleaning up the mess that will otherwise be created.

("97.fm" indeed! It will be fun to see what the USPTO does if they try
to register that as a trademark!)

Bill Lovell