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Re: using "lego" in domain names
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:56:03 GMT
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Paul Davidson <tinman@direct.ca> wrote in message
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> Matthew is absolutely right. Many companies try to take their trademark
> nonsense way too far, usually without legal basis. I remember a recent • case
> (perhaps relevant here, noting Matthew's web address) where Toys'R'Us was
> going after a collecting site, toys-r-gus, because of the name • *similarity*.
> Yikes, who'd be stupid enough to get them confused? And since when can • you
> trademark English languages words? Much of it is simply corporate • bullying,
> it would be a shame if Lego were a part of it.
Don't they make a fuss about anything with a back-to-front R in it?
Huw
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 | | Re: using "lego" in domain names
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| (...) Yes, they certainly do. And with anything using "are us", "for us", "r [something]", "'r' us", "r-us", or any other large amount of things which don't really relate to their trademarks. (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: using "lego" in domain names
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| Then they should go sue the Russian language or Tetris. :) -- Paul Davidson, aka Tinman www.theforce.net | Your Daily Dose of Star Wars www.filmforce.net | Your Daily Dose of Film News Huw Millington <hmillington@cix.co.uk> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: using "lego" in domain names
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| Matthew is absolutely right. Many companies try to take their trademark nonsense way too far, usually without legal basis. I remember a recent case (perhaps relevant here, noting Matthew's web address) where Toys'R'Us was going after a collecting (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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