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Re: using "lego" in domain names
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 14 Dec 1999 22:10:57 GMT
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mattdm@SPAMLESSmattdm.org
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To add to my point -- you know all of those people using "brick" as part of
their site names? Well, "brick" is a registered trademark of several
different organization. Any one of these, by the logic of "no trademarks in
domain names" could (and perhaps should!) make these sites change their
names. (Probably to site14155645, because that won't violate anybody's....
oh wait, "site" is a registered trademark of Hub Distributing Inc. So I
guess that's out.)

--
Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                       --->             http://quotes-r-us.org/



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  Re: using "lego" in domain names
 
Just wait until someone tries trademarking all the integers. :) (and out of curiosity, do you have some handy-dandy way of searching the trademark databases?) -- Paul Davidson, aka Tinman www.theforce.net | Your Daily Dose of Star Wars (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: using "lego" in domain names
 
(...) Not to sound nitpicky, but that'd be "they treat what they perceive to be TM infringments".... "Technic" may be a trademark of the Lego Company, but it's also an English-language word dating back at least to 1760. (In one sense, it has (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

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