Re: [ga] Domain names as observed (was Tucows Response to Cochetti Transfer Letter)

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Leah and all assembly members,

L Gallegos wrote:

> Sotiris, this is exactly what I was saying.  It is not just a website
> address, but the name of the company which is the source of goods
> and services.  For instance, I cannot trademark biztld.net because it is
> just an address.  If I were to form a company with that name, I could
> register the trademark - maybe.

  No Leah, you could register it as a TM as a Class 23 or Class 48
I believe and or as a "Word Mark" as well without having a company
by that name.

>
>
> Leah
>
> On 28 Jul 2001, at 2:51, Sotiris Sotiropoulos wrote:
>
> > L Gallegos wrote:
> >
> > > As for trademarking a domain name, in the US, it can't be unless it is
> > > more than just the address for a website.  The domain name itself, as a
> > > domain name, is not trademarkable - at least according to the USPTO
> > > guidelines.
> >
> > >From the USPTO:
> >
> > Word Mark: AMAZON.COM
> >
> > Goods & Services: IC 035. US 100 101 102. G & S: computerized on line
> > search and ordering service featuring the wholesale and retail distribution
> > of books, music, motion pictures, multimedia products and computer software
> > in the form of printed books, audiocassettes, videocassettes, compact
> > disks, floppy disks, CD ROMs, and direct digital transmission. FIRST USE:
> > 19950415. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19950415
> >
> > Mark Drawing Code  (1) TYPED DRAWING
> >
> > Serial Number: 75277670
> >
> > Filing Date: April 18, 1997
> >
> > Published for Opposition: March 31, 1998
> >
> > Registration Date: June 23, 1998
> >
> > This looks like a TM to me. (Also, not only is it a WORD MARK Tm, but it is
> > of the most coomon TM variety: (1) TYPED DRAWING (1,729,236 occurences of
> > this type of TM in the USPTO)
> >
> > IANAL,
> >
> > Sotiris Sotiropoulos
> >
> >
> >

Regards,

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