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

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

Precisely, Sotiris.  Amazon.com is the name of the company and 
the source of goods and services.  It is not simply an address for a 
website.  One cannot trademark a domain name just as a domain 
name.  It is the mark before the "." that is the tm.  For instance, I 
cannot trademark biztld.net.  It is not the name of the company 
and is just one of several addresses used for the .biz registry.  

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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