Re: [ga] Apply for a TM, and make $12000 on a domain you never owned!

[steinle@smartvia.de]

this is common practice.
look at this:

"Furthermore, the Respondent states that, as further evidence of the
Complainant's attempt at reverse hijacking, the Complainant has applied for
various federal trademarks, a list of which appears in Exhibit 6 to the
Response (and taken from the publicly available and web-accessible Trademark
Electronic Search System -- TESS -- provided by the United States Patent and
Trademark Office - "PTO") and includes:



            Serial No.         Reg. No.          Word Mark      Live/Dead

78072101                                SEX.INFO      DEAD

78014925                                SEX.WEB       DEAD

78035833                                SEX.PRO        DEAD

78014928                                SEX.BUY        LIVE

78035843                                SEX.INFO      LIVE

76031958                                SEX.SHOP      LIVE

76031959                                SEX.SHOPS   DEAD

            76092746        2461859          SEX.SHOP      LIVE



Given this, the Respondent contends that "there is no doubt that Mr.
Kalaydjian filed all those trademark applications to reverse hijack the
corresponding domain names from the rightful owners"."
http://sex.shop.steinle.biz
http://www.steinle.law.pro

Regards,
Simon
http://nic.pro.xs2.net - The dotPRO Registry


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joop Teernstra" <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>
To: "Andy Gardner" <andy@navigator.co.nz>; <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 1:58 AM
Subject: Re: [ga] Apply for a TM, and make $12000 on a domain you never
owned!


> At 04:50 p.m. 28/12/2002, Andy Gardner wrote:
>
>
> >But you'll have to pay NAF to help in this little scam...
> >
> >http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28676.html
>
> This gets more interesting as you look at the Dispute resolution policies
> now on offer:
>
> "Start Up Opposition Policy" (STOP) is a dispute resolution  policy that
we
> have not heard much about.  According to
> http://www.neulevel.biz/stop_overview/stop_overview.html
>
> a. It is an ICANN -adopted Dispute resolution policy
> b. It is limited to .biz registrations
> c. For a fee (you have to "enroll" in the NeuLevel Intellectual Property
> Claim Service
> ) Trademark owners can prevail over DN registrants with a lower burden of
> proof of bad faith registrations.
>
> The case itself demonstrates that dispute resolution policies, in the
> absence of binding rules about jurisdiction, still don't "resolve"
anything.
> The party with the deeper pockets (even if it was unsuccessful in
obtaining
> the TM!) can still bully the other party into settlement by threatening to
> start all over again in another jurisdiction.
>
>
> -joop-
>
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