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Re: using "lego" in domain names
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Date: 
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:56:03 GMT
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Paul Davidson <tinman@direct.ca> wrote in message
news:FMrx24.EH1@lugnet.com...
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
 
(...) 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
 
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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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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