All, Unfortunately MR. Owen missed the follow up post I sent some time ago announcing that we have withdrawn several of our requests for TM of which .INFO was one of those. Dukelow, Owen wrote: > Some may recall that on March 16, 1999 Jeff Williams announced that he had > filed a trademark application for .INFO and he then clarified to say that > the application was filed "in an affiliates [sic] name." See below. CORE > Association of Geneva, Switzerland filed on March 8, 1999 trademark > application no. 75-655804 for .INFO for domain registry services in the U.S. > See > http://trademarks.uspto.gov/cgi-bin/ifetch4?ENG+PEND+3+941840+0+0+8021+F+3+1 > 41+1+MS%2finfo > <http://trademarks.uspto.gov/cgi-bin/ifetch4?ENG+PEND+3+941840+0+0+8021+F+3+ > 141+1+MS%2finfo> > <http://trademarks.uspto.gov/cgi-bin/ifetch4?ENG+PEND+3+941840+0+0+8021+F+3+ > 141+1+MS%2finfo> , along with applications filed the same day for .REC, > .WEB, .SHOP, .FIRM, and .NOM for the same services. No other applications > for .INFO are pending, thus raising the questions: > > (1) Is CORE affiliated with Jeff Williams or any business entity owned, > operated or associated with Jeff Williams?; and > (2) Is CORE to be the exclusive provider of registry services for the above > TLDs? > > -----Original Message----- > From: jeff Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 12:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Trademark Applications (was RE: [IFWP] Re: What ICANN....) > > Kevin and all, > > Kevin M. Kelly wrote: > > >> On 16-Mar-99 jeff Williams wrote: > >> > Well, you will likely need to be contacting me on the .info > >TLD as we > >> > have filed a Trademark on it. Not approved as of yet however. > >> > >> Was this filed in YOUR name or INEG's name? References please. > > > > No it wasn't. It is filed in an affiliates name. > > > > Fortunately, this information is maintained in a Patents and Trademarks > database > http://www1.uspto.gov/tmdb/index.html > <http://www1.uspto.gov/tmdb/index.html> > > Please to take note, that the last update to the trademarks Database > (Searchable) was December 1st. Any other applications may not be > available until next update has been completed to the Trademark > Searchable Database at the before mentioned URL that Kevin provided. > As my mentioned application has occurred after this date, the database > does not contain that information as of yet. > > <http://www1.uspto.gov/tmdb/index.html> > > Are you (or your affiliate) the Children's Television Network (pending class > > 41 application for "INFO")? > > No we are not. We are applying for .info read "Dot" info" > > or the Interim Planning Committee, Inc (pending class 41 application for > "CULT.INFO")? > > No. > > Regards, > -- > 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 Regards, -- 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