[ifwp] RE: Who is it that needs trademark protection?

1999-01-27 Thread Carl Oppedahl
At 12:09 PM 1/23/99 , Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: At 09:11 PM 1/22/99 -0800, Bill Lovell wrote: At 02:20 PM 1/22/99 -0500, you wrote: As for Mr. Lovell's comments on NSI, I have repeatedly stated that NSI's dispute resolution proceeding works an injustice because it performs no likelihood of

[ifwp] RE: Who is it that needs trademark protection?

1999-01-23 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 09:11 PM 1/22/99 -0800, Bill Lovell wrote: At 02:20 PM 1/22/99 -0500, you wrote: As for Mr. Lovell's comments on NSI, I have repeatedly stated that NSI's dispute resolution proceeding works an injustice because it performs no likelihood of confusion analysis. It does not have the expertise

[ifwp] RE: Who is it that needs trademark protection?

1999-01-22 Thread Bill Lovell
At 09:45 PM 1/21/99 -0500, you wrote: Case law in the USA, not in the entire world. As I recall, the law varies a bit from country to country, no? --MM Martin B. Schwimmer wrote: I would argue that the case law for likelihood of confusion analysis is completely fleshed out. An entry level

[ifwp] RE: Who is it that needs trademark protection?

1999-01-22 Thread Martin B. Schwimmer
The fact that Mr. Lovell did not have my original post (or more importnatly, the series of posts I was responding to) may have led him to beleive that we are less in agreement than we are: In summary: This thread began with a domain name owner complaining that leaving dispute resolution to full

[ifwp] RE: Who is it that needs trademark protection?

1999-01-22 Thread Mikki Barry
there is a lot of talk about the "public interest" on these lists. The public interest here has come to mean the rights of DN holders to not get sued by the (pause for demonization effect) TM interests. That is rather disingenuous IMHO. Public interest to me means that the right of freedom of

[ifwp] RE: Who is it that needs trademark protection?

1999-01-18 Thread Martin B. Schwimmer
And further, ADR is available now, at the consent of both parties. Any MANDATED ADR, where neither party can elect not to be a part of the ADR, is a violation of their rights. There is no need to mandate ADR, provisions for it exist on our laws already. The New York Stock Exchange's

[ifwp] RE: Who is it that needs trademark protection?

1999-01-18 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
At 02:12 PM 1/18/99 -0500, Mikki Barry wrote: Vint Cerf was right in his contention that trademark issues should NOT be a part of the DNS discussions. DNS discussions should be completed along technical lines, and the court system should be deciding issues of infringement. I know that if INTA