NewzealandSHEEP.com (RE: [ga] NewZealand.com WIPO decision)

[Marc Schneiders <marc@fuchsia.bijt.net>]

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, at 19:43 [=GMT-0600], Rodrigo  Orenday Serrato wrote:

> Well then, what about foreign trade laws that enforce national content or
> country of origin requisites?. If someone puts "made in Mexico" on something
> that wasn't made in Mexico (and wouldn't that be missuse of the name
> "Mexico"?), that person might be in for trouble, don't you think?.

"Made in Mexico" is something protected by laws all over the world. Where
are the laws that protect the names of countries? Best examples would be
those that protect the names of other countries in a country, not (merely)
its own country name.

You may have a case for newzealandsheep.com being used to sell sheep that
where born and bred in Australia under the UDRP. Not for newzealand.com.
There are shops that sell oriental carpets called Istanbul. Not all their
carpets originate from there, and they are not breaking any law (nor
confusing any customer) unless they claim that they sell only goods from
Istanbul.

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