[e-gold-list] Re: Stealing Trademarked Words

2003-08-14 Thread FileMatrix
Those who named the company 3M are idiots because the name is too short to be considered as a *logical* association with other then generic things. 3M could the short for 3 Millions, 3 Mega, 3 Meters, 3 Microns, 3 Muffs (sort of square(Dumb and Dumber)), whatever. Simply tell you client to specify

[e-gold-list] Re: Stealing Trademarked Words

2003-08-14 Thread Katz Global Media
So it seems by most of your opinions and 3M that they own the rights to all 3m* domain names, including ones that are not yet registered, so that means ICANN should just turn over their product to them free of charge. What would that be? 100,000 possible domains? maybe 1 million domains? The

[e-gold-list] Re: Stealing Trademarked Words

2003-08-10 Thread Patrick Chkoreff
On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 05:25 PM, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: You're screwed. Seriously though, what in the world is someone thinking when they register a domain name like 3mservice.com ? I know you said that's not really the domain name, but why would anyone register ANYTHING like that?

[e-gold-list] Re: Stealing Trademarked Words

2003-08-09 Thread Adam Selene
Katz Global Media wrote: Cyber Squatting was mentioned earlier and that is not relevant here becasue the name was intended for a forum for satellite users to discuss technology and not registered to sell to 3M. The question is going to be, what's the 3m signify? Here's a Russian Cosmos-3M

[e-gold-list] Re: Stealing Trademarked Words

2003-08-07 Thread Adam Selene
The third condition simply then become a matter of opinion. Well, perhaps that's a slight overstatement. In order to defend this case, you must prove that the domain has not been registered and used in bad faith. To do so, you need to prove: A) That he has legitimate plans for the domain

[e-gold-list] Re: Stealing Trademarked Words

2003-08-07 Thread Katz Global Media
The question is going to be, what's the 3m signify? 3M stands 3M bin which relates to a channel flow on a satellite TV system. 3M Short for 'three Musketeers', whose line was 'one for all and all for one'. A very simple and short script which is in a card to allow for all channels to

[e-gold-list] Re: Stealing Trademarked Words

2003-08-06 Thread Robert S.Z.
and this one is for you Robert: http://www.icann.org/gnso/issue-reports/whois-privacy-report-13may03.htm Hello Gordon, There is a difference between 'holding in trust' and 'being' a trust. You see, we settled a trust to hold domains for clients. This trust is not related to us other than that

[e-gold-list] Re: Stealing Trademarked Words

2003-08-06 Thread Katz Global Media
ICANN is the government after all... who controlls your domain name really? ICANN WAS FORMED IN RESPONSE TO A U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE WHITE PAPER ICANN was created by members of the Internet community in response to a June 1998 White Paper, issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC).

[e-gold-list] Re: Stealing Trademarked Words

2003-08-06 Thread Patrick Chkoreff
On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 05:13 PM, Katz Global Media wrote: The 3M corporation is claiming (by certified email and mail) that a domain we hold in our trust for a client is in violation of their trademark. They have also gone as far to send us a form that allows for the domain to be

[e-gold-list] Re: Stealing Trademarked Words

2003-08-06 Thread Katz Global Media
I am not willing to do that, but I can say that it has been changed to take on the same meaning and context so that the discussion would be on key with the facts of this. g/ --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL

[e-gold-list] Re: Stealing Trademarked Words

2003-08-06 Thread FileMatrix
I see things like this: 1. e-gold-casino is a trade-mark infringement because it confuses visitors in the way they are likely to think e-gold-casino is run by E-gold. 2. bet-with-egold is not an infringement because it tells visitors they can *use* egold to bet with. This is like I would put a

[e-gold-list] Re: Stealing Trademarked Words

2003-08-05 Thread FileMatrix
I forgot something... I don't think search engines give much credit to the name of a site. For example, there is domain called www.filematrix.com. Probably, a guy bought the domain to be able to sell it to me (but I have no intention to buy that). There was never a site referred by this domain

[e-gold-list] Re: Stealing Trademarked Words

2003-08-05 Thread Katz Global Media
OK kind people of the e-gold list :-) I have a real life scenario for you to chew on and spit out that just arose today and just happend to fit in perfectly with the discussion. You can pretend you are the legal team so choose sides now and let's see the scenarios. I will comment after I hear

[e-gold-list] Re: Stealing Trademarked Words

2003-08-05 Thread Patrick Chkoreff
On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 09:52 PM, Katz Global Media wrote: Cyber Squatting was mentioned earlier and that is not relevant here becasue the name was intended for a forum for satellite users to discuss technology and not registered to sell to 3M. Gosh, did your customer ever consider