Re: [wg-c] Avery-Dennison decision and new gTLDs

["Kevin J. Connolly" <CONNOLLK@rspab.com>]

Umm, Dave . . .

Milton speaks sooth.  Few and far between are
the jurists who actually understand the DNS.

However, the Avery decision seems to point in the
direction of protecting famous marks from dilution
by domain name registration.

This is a good thing <generic phrase insusceptible
of trademark protection in this context :->

KJC

>>> Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com> 08/25/99 01:20PM >>>
At 09:17 AM 8/25/99 , Milton Mueller wrote:
>Unfortunately most judges do not seem to understand the
>arbitrariness of the special status of dot com registrations
>and how easily that could be changed by the addition of new
>gTLDs.

An impressively sweeping and definitive assessment.

Please explain the basis for such broad assertion of judicial incompetence.

d/

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