>> Here's a good one. Zenith watches, in Switzerland, makes the most
>> accurate mechanical watches known. Rolex uses a de-tuned (God nows why)
>> Zenith movement in their high end chrongraph. ("Daytona").
>>
>> Samsung bought American company Zenith, and although they havn't
>> made a watch, ever, the trademark classiciation "Horological
>> instruments" lets a Korean company prevent a Swiss company
>> from selling arguably the best watch ever made, in the US.
>
>Trademark law doesn't prohibit the selling of anything. It only restricts
>how the product is *labeled.* Zenith US got to the US mark first. Zenith
>CH will have to use a different name to sell in the US. First-come
>first-served does have it's downside.
Zenith has been selling amazingwatches since 1800-someting. Zenith USA
sold cheap clocks for a few years.
Zenich USA would be damaged by zenith.ch sellng $5000 watches? How?
Would they be confused with $30 plastic kitchen clocks. We're
expected to believe this ?
Trademark law is seriosuly broken and stupid sometimes.
>> I think if trademark lawyers are defining the DNS then it's
>> only fair plan that nameserver operators should define tradematk
>> law.
>
>Hey, you engineering wonks had first shot at the naming policy.
No we didn't. Not with these guys running interference.
http://dns.vrx.net/news/by_date/old/1995/Nov/isocplan.html
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