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> "bellatlantic", there shouldn't be any questions about the ruling. It
would
> be worrying if Bell Atlantic claims "ba" as their trademark and go after
> sites that contain the letters "ba"
Note that the article says that Bell Atlantic claims thousands of
infringements (as they did in their comments to WIPO last year).
http://www.cato.org/realaudio/cpf-05-06-99.ram has an audio of a Bell
Atlantic rep discussing this. Hear the laughter when it comes out that
these "infringements" include any domain name that contains the string
"BELL" in any way. The Bell Atlantic rep was unable to supply any examples
where consuers were confused into thinking one of these web sites was an
official Bell Atlantic site.
Russ Smith
http://domainia.org
