Bill and all,
Um, Bill Yahoo and IBM already have trademarks on their Domain names...
But they do not have TM on .IBM and .Yahoo respectively...
Bill Lovell wrote:
> At 05:22 PM 4/1/99 +0000, you wrote:
> >Gregbo and all,
> >
> >Greg Skinner wrote:
> >
> >> "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> Furthermore, my guess is that if people start registering TLDs as trademarks
> >> en masse, eventually we will have the root(s) filled with .ibm, .att,
> >> .yahoo, etc.
> >
> > I seriously doubt this. Why? Well the answer is simple. Many
> >of these that you mention here, .Yahoo and .IBM would be refused
> >TM's for obvious reasons, as will many others...
>
> Um, IBM and Yahoo already have trademarks. One does not "trademark"
> a domain name any more than one trademarks the pencil and paper with
> which the trademark name is written down, this computer screen on
> which this deathless prose is being written, or that box-like thing in
> my living room from which emits almost as much endless nonsense
> as . . . oh, pardon me. Anyway, a domain name (TLD or otherwise) is
> one way among many of setting out one's trademark, and the fact that
> it also serves as routing code doesn't change that.
>
> Bill Lovell
> >
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> >Jeffrey A. Williams
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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
