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Re: using "lego" in domain names
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Date: 
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 08:34:37 GMT
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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?)
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Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message
news:slrn85dg3g.cb5.mattdm@jadzia.bu.edu...

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.)

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  Re: using "lego" in domain names
 
(...) Yeah. The USPTO has a searchable database at <URL:(URL). There's also a few others which provide prettier front ends to the same data. (May be slightly out-of-date, though.) <URL:(URL) has a nice one that returns a lot of useful information in (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
  Re: using "lego" in domain names
 
(...) There is a funny article on the www.theonion.com archives page that reports that Microsoft trademarked 1s and 0s stating that all of their code used them. It says that Apple had to start making pedal powered, vinyl disk using Macs because they (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
  Re: using "lego" in domain names
 
(...) Intel tried it with 586 I belive. They couldn't get a trade make so they called it the pentium instead. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: using "lego" in domain names
 
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 (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

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