Re: [ga] Interesting WIPO ruling re: NewZealand.biz

[Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>]

On 2002-10-10 16:32:36 -0500, Rodrigo  Orenday Serrato wrote:

>1. Mexican trade & service mark and copyright laws are of public 
>interest, and they forbid the appropriation of generic terms, 
>amongst others.

What kind of appropriation?

Registration of a domain name only means appropriation in that  
specific "space".  Registering coffee.org does not prevent anyone  
else from calling a cup of coffee "a cup of coffee".  (And it also 
doesn't prevent anyone else from registering coffee.com, by the  
way.)

That's vastly different from the kind of appropriation which would  
be implied by an appropriate trademark registration of the term  
"coffee".  (Which indeed better should not happen.)

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