All,
Be aware William Walsh is implicated in fraudulent business practices as
well as wrongful appropriation of funds from a previous employer
at nic.tj. Further documentation can be provided upon request.
William X. Walsh wrote:
> On 08-Mar-99 Martin B. Schwimmer wrote:
> > If someone learns of a web version of this case, please post the url. I
> > didn't reprint the entire thing because I didn't have the entire thing in
> > electronic form.
> >
> > In any event, this case supports the view that a domain name in the form
> > [third party trademark].undifferentiated TLD is not protectable speech on
> > its face, and a tribunal could make such a finding in an expedited
> > proceeding.
> >
> > Enhancing the protection of free speech on the net could be achieved by
> > non-commercial TLDs which helped make a communicative message out of the DN
> > - [xyz].sucks, [xyz].crit, [xyz].anon, [xyz].speech. In the .com TLD, for
> > the form [xyz].com where xyz is a third-party trademark, the free speech
> > defense seems pretty specious in most cases.
>
> This is the danger of mandatory ADR at this point. Conflicting decisions, and
> a WIPO oriented ADR procedure is likely to use a single case such as this as a
> basis for their decisions. It takes more than on decision by one court to
> flesh out this issue.
>
> Enforcing mandatory ADR at this junction is dangerous for this very reason.
> The fact that a precedent of a single decision can be uniformly applied as a
> basis for removal of one's right to use a domain name.
>
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> E-Mail: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 08-Mar-99
> Time: 15:17:58
> ----------------------------------
> "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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Jeffrey A. Williams
CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Contact Number: 972-447-1894
Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
