On 22-Feb-99 William X. Walsh wrote:
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> On 22-Feb-99 Martin B. Schwimmer wrote:
> > I don't think TM owners are asking that the DNS be re-engineered. They
> > are asking that if gTLDs are to be added (which I don't think should be
> > classified as re-engineering) that those who seek to own and operate these
> > new ventures be respectful of other people's pre-existing rights. These
> > rights have been created and are protected under national trademark and
> > unfair competition laws and various international treaties. Mueller made
> > the ipse dixit claim that such rights don't exist. He may not like that
> > they exist and he is entitled to his opinion, although he masquerades his
> > personal opinions as pronouncements on the law. He is wrong about the
> > law.
>
> NO ONE is saying their rights should not be recognized.
>
> MY honoring the rulings of courts in these matters a registry is doing their
> responsibility to both parties by honoring both of their rights.
That should of said BY honoring.......guess I need more caffeine this morning.
>
> > So the topic at issue here is whether the domain name registration system
> > should be expanded without recognition of the legal rights of others - or
> > perhaps there can be some reasonable compromise.
>
> Of course it can be expanded with recognition of the legal rights of others,
> by honoring court rulings.
>
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> E-Mail: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 22-Feb-99
> Time: 09:27:11
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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
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E-Mail: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 22-Feb-99
Time: 09:36:33
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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
