Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-03-02 Thread Bill Lovell
At 04:10 PM 3/1/99 -0800, you wrote: >I think the best move for us to take is to just start using the >Trademarking of Private and Prospective TLDs and be done with it. It >is a silly thing to try to use qas a hammer to get ICAN to back off. >They do not listen to or respond to threats! They rea

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-03-02 Thread jeff Williams
Roeland and all, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:  At 04:10 PM 3/1/99 -0800, Einar Stefferud wrote: >I think the best move for us to take is to just start using the >Trademarking of Private and Prospective TLDs and be done with it.  It >is a silly thing to try to use qas a hammer to get ICAN to back off

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-03-02 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 04:10 PM 3/1/99 -0800, Einar Stefferud wrote: >I think the best move for us to take is to just start using the >Trademarking of Private and Prospective TLDs and be done with it.  It >is a silly thing to try to use qas a hammer to get ICAN to back off. >They do not listen to or respond to threat

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-03-01 Thread Bill Lovell
At 10:54 PM 3/1/99 -0500, you wrote: >I'm sorry I wrote that to you as a private post. > >OK: > >The right to use a trademark is recognized as a kind of property, of which >the owner is entitled to the exclusive enjoyment to the extent that it has >been actually used. Hamilton-Brown v. Wolf Bros,

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-03-01 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 10:54 PM 3/1/99 -0500, Martin B. Schwimmer wrote: >I'm sorry I wrote that to you as a private post. > >OK: > >The right to use a trademark is recognized as a kind of property, of which >the owner is entitled to the exclusive enjoyment to the extent that it has >been actually used. Hamilton-Bro

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-03-01 Thread jeff Williams
Stef and all, Einar Stefferud wrote: > I think the best move for us to take is to just start using the > Trademarking of Private and Prospective TLDs and be done with it. It > is a silly thing to try to use qas a hammer to get ICAN to back off. > They do not listen to or respond to threats! Th

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-03-01 Thread Martin B. Schwimmer
I'm sorry I wrote that to you as a private post. OK: The right to use a trademark is recognized as a kind of property, of which the owner is entitled to the exclusive enjoyment to the extent that it has been actually used. Hamilton-Brown v. Wolf Bros, 240 US 251 (1916). see the other cases di

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-03-01 Thread jeff Williams
Roeland and all, Good points here Roeland, and I concur completely. I just wish you would not have let the cat out of the bag so to speak. >;) Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: > At 12:52 PM 3/1/99 -0800, Greg Skinner wrote: > >"Roeland M.J. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I would posit

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-03-01 Thread Bill Lovell
At 09:19 PM 3/1/99 -0500, you wrote: >>>"A trademark, even a registered one, is not a property right, like a >>copyright or patent, but merely an identifier of source. Others can >>use the same mark to identify their product, provided there is no >>likelihood of confusion." Door Systems Inc. v

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-03-01 Thread Einar Stefferud
I think the best move for us to take is to just start using the Trademarking of Private and Prospective TLDs and be done with it. It is a silly thing to try to use qas a hammer to get ICAN to back off. They do not listen to or respond to threats! They react to real live action. And since this n

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-03-01 Thread Bill Lovell
At 06:10 PM 3/1/99 -0500, you wrote: >Usually the Courts are just repeating what they learned from academia, only >about >40 years out of date. They'll learn. The law and economics school has had a >tremendous impact on the case law, particularly in regulatory venues. >--MM > Thank you, Dr. Muel

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-03-01 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 12:52 PM 3/1/99 -0800, Greg Skinner wrote: >"Roeland M.J. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I would posit that we have just found the natural process by which >> new TLDs will have to be created. Further, as Marty, Bill, and I >> discussed earlier on this list, all SLDs and other domains,

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-03-01 Thread Milton Mueller
Usually the Courts are just repeating what they learned from academia, only about 40 years out of date. They'll learn. The law and economics school has had a tremendous impact on the case law, particularly in regulatory venues. --MM Bill Lovell wrote: > At 12:19 AM 3/1/99 -0500, you wrote: > > U

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-03-01 Thread Bill Lovell
At 01:07 PM 3/1/99 +, you wrote: > >I don't know about US case law, but under English law trade marks most >certainly are property. They are part of that great division of property, >Intellectual Property. Even in the US they (like domain names) seem to >have the key attributes of property:

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-03-01 Thread Greg Skinner
"Roeland M.J. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would posit that we have just found the natural process by which > new TLDs will have to be created. Further, as Marty, Bill, and I > discussed earlier on this list, all SLDs and other domains, > registered within this TLD, can be protected behi

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-03-01 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 12:35 AM 3/1/99 -0800, Bill Lovell wrote: >At 01:39 AM 2/28/99 -0800, you wrote: > > However, I acknowledge that ICANN is a different beastie than >>NSI. BTW, from a tech stand-point, I already have the TLDs running >>internally and providing service, for which I get paid. Also, the ICANN is >>

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-03-01 Thread clare . wardle
Bill Lovell wroteAt 03:00 AM 2/27/99 -0800, you wrote: >>To my previous message, >> >>One particular point I might add, this puts a pretty serious dent in the >>argument that domain names aren't owned. They are owned in the same sense >>that trademarks are owned, especially if they are also trad

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-03-01 Thread Bill Lovell
At 01:39 AM 2/28/99 -0800, you wrote: However, I acknowledge that ICANN is a different beastie than >NSI. BTW, from a tech stand-point, I already have the TLDs running >internally and providing service, for which I get paid. Also, the ICANN is >not the sole gate-keeper of the Internet. > >Uh, I'

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-03-01 Thread Bill Lovell
At 12:19 AM 3/1/99 -0500, you wrote: Um, when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in which I practice tells me that trademarks are not property, I listen, and I don't much give a rip about what academia says. Bill Lovell >Bill >You make important distinctions between the type of property right

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-03-01 Thread Milton Mueller
Bill You make important distinctions between the type of property right associated with patents, copyrights, and trademarks. However, from the standpoint of law and economics theory, and from the standpoint of ordinary usage, "ownership" means the following things: -- the right to use -- the right

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-02-28 Thread jeff Williams
Bill and all, Bill Lovell wrote: > At 09:54 PM 2/27/99 -0800, you wrote: > > > > At 01:54 PM 2/27/99 -0800, Bill Lovell wrote: > > >At 01:21 PM 2/27/99 -0800, you wrote: > > >>At 11:57 AM 2/27/99 -0800, Bill Lovell wrote: > > >>>At 03:00 AM 2/27/99 -0800, you wrote: > > > > Bill and all other Eu

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-02-28 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 12:29 AM 2/28/99 -0800, Bill Lovell wrote: >At 09:54 PM 2/27/99 -0800, you wrote: >> >> At 01:54 PM 2/27/99 -0800, Bill Lovell wrote: >> >At 01:21 PM 2/27/99 -0800, you wrote: >> >>At 11:57 AM 2/27/99 -0800, Bill Lovell wrote: >> >>>At 03:00 AM 2/27/99 -0800, you wrote: >> >> Bill and all othe

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-02-28 Thread Bill Lovell
At 12:32 AM 2/28/99 +, you wrote: >Bill and all, > > Ok, this is our opinion as well. I was just trying to get some >clarification on >what you were saying. > > This also brings up another interesting point as well. If I or anyone >were to >trademark, say .STORe (read "dot Store") I must f

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-02-28 Thread Bill Lovell
At 09:54 PM 2/27/99 -0800, you wrote: > > At 01:54 PM 2/27/99 -0800, Bill Lovell wrote: > >At 01:21 PM 2/27/99 -0800, you wrote: > >>At 11:57 AM 2/27/99 -0800, Bill Lovell wrote: > >>>At 03:00 AM 2/27/99 -0800, you wrote: > > Bill and all other EudorsPro users, under /Tools/Options/Miscellaneous,

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-02-28 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 01:54 PM 2/27/99 -0800, Bill Lovell wrote: >At 01:21 PM 2/27/99 -0800, you wrote: >>At 11:57 AM 2/27/99 -0800, Bill Lovell wrote: >>>At 03:00 AM 2/27/99 -0800, you wrote: Bill and all other EudorsPro users, under /Tools/Options/Miscellaneous, check the "Automatically Expand Nicknames" box and

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-02-28 Thread jeff Williams
Bill and all, Ok, this is our opinion as well. I was just trying to get some clarification on what you were saying. This also brings up another interesting point as well. If I or anyone were to trademark, say .STORe (read "dot Store") I must first show it as in use in commerce on the Inter

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-02-27 Thread Bill Lovell
At 06:03 PM 2/27/99 +, you wrote: > Than to follow your logic here if a Domain Name is trademarked, it is >not property, yet it can be owned? Hum? Interesting logic here. Read again. I said that a trademark neither adds to or detracts from. If it was a domaing name (i.e., property) be

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-02-27 Thread jeff Williams
Bill and all, Bill Lovell wrote: > At 03:00 AM 2/27/99 -0800, you wrote: > >To my previous message, > > > >One particular point I might add, this puts a pretty serious dent in the > >argument that domain names aren't owned. They are owned in the same sense > >that trademarks are owned, especiall

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-02-27 Thread Bill Lovell
At 01:21 PM 2/27/99 -0800, you wrote: >At 11:57 AM 2/27/99 -0800, Bill Lovell wrote: >>At 03:00 AM 2/27/99 -0800, you wrote: >>>To my previous message, >>> >>>One particular point I might add, this puts a pretty serious dent in the >>>argument that domain names aren't owned. They are owned in the

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-02-27 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 11:57 AM 2/27/99 -0800, Bill Lovell wrote: >At 03:00 AM 2/27/99 -0800, you wrote: >>To my previous message, >> >>One particular point I might add, this puts a pretty serious dent in the >>argument that domain names aren't owned. They are owned in the same sense >>that trademarks are owned, espe

Re: [IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-02-27 Thread Bill Lovell
At 03:00 AM 2/27/99 -0800, you wrote: >To my previous message, > >One particular point I might add, this puts a pretty serious dent in the >argument that domain names aren't owned. They are owned in the same sense >that trademarks are owned, especially if they are also trade marked, >whether in co

[IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-02-27 Thread jeff Williams
Roeland and all, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: > At 02:05 AM 2/27/99 -0800, William X. Walsh wrote: > > > >On 27-Feb-99 Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: > >> Well, one thing came indirectly out of the trademark/DNS discussions is > >> that if a TLD name is trademarks, as a TLD name, the root-servers dare

[IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-02-27 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
To my previous message, One particular point I might add, this puts a pretty serious dent in the argument that domain names aren't owned. They are owned in the same sense that trademarks are owned, especially if they are also trade marked, whether in common law or registered with USPTO. It appear

[IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-02-27 Thread jeff Williams
William and all, If I am not mistaken we have had this discussion way back on the old gTLD-MoU list. I believe that answer is whether one can Trademark a "TLD" as a "TLD "(None the less a DN). Under US Trademark law, I don't believe that one can Trademark a "TLD" as a "TLD" or "gTLD". This r

[IFWP] Re: Trademark Enforcement at the TLD Level. WAS Re: alternate rootzone

1999-02-27 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 02:05 AM 2/27/99 -0800, William X. Walsh wrote: > >On 27-Feb-99 Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: >> Well, one thing came indirectly out of the trademark/DNS discussions is >> that if a TLD name is trademarks, as a TLD name, the root-servers dare not >> assign it to anyone else. If they did, it woul