Re: [ga] FYI: WLS Vote of Transfers Task Force

[Gary Osbourne <gro@direct.ca>]

At 05:31 PM 29/07/02 -0400, Dan Steinberg wrote:

>Every TM specialist who argued for or against the WLS
>in front of the task force seemed to agree WLS was
>intellectual property neutral, a position I happen to
>agree with.

If that is the case then does that mean TM specialists
have no rationale for arguing about it at all?

>So todd, how does creating a WLS or WLS-type service
>create a new trademark class?

Not that it does, but it strikes me as strange that
someone can register a domain name identical or
confusingly similar to a trademark and lose it via
the UDRP or the courts even if they never use it
for anything. OTOH one can sign up for the WLS on
a trademarked name and one is safe (including
presumably to sell that slot to others).

So as has been seen in some recent UDRP cases one
registers famous names and then finds someone of
the same name to be its registrant. Or one registers
a trademarked name and then offers it to the highest
bidder from amongst those holding that trademark.

The squatters will be there in droves, looks more
like a new trademark free class to me. -g

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