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

["L Gallegos" <jandl@jandl.com>]

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.

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
> 
> 
> 


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