RE: [wg-b] Points of agreement

["Hartman, Steve" <HartmanS@Nabisco.com>]

WIPO's Standing Committee's work is acceptable to me.

Steve Hartman
Nabisco, Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	mheltzer [SMTP:mheltzer@inta.org]
> Sent:	Thursday, December 16, 1999 10:35 AM
> To:	'Cade,Marilyn S - LGA'; 'wg-b@dnso.org'
> Subject:	RE: [wg-b] Points of agreement
> 
> I agree with Marilyn that we should be using the WIPO Standing Committee's
> work.  However, I believe we should use as the criteria for determining
> whether a particular mark is famous in terms of its use on the Internet.
> We
> should not, however, attempt to necessarily * define * what is a famous
> mark.  
> 
> Mike Heltzer
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cade,Marilyn S - LGA [mailto:mcade@att.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 9:26 AM
> To: 'Harald Tveit Alvestrand'; Hartman, Steve; wg-b@dnso.org
> Subject: RE: [wg-b] Points of agreement
> 
> 
> Can we agree to work on a definition, using WIPO's Standing Committee's
> work
> and perhaps other well accepted legal texts?  Marilyn
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand [mailto:Harald@alvestrand.no]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 5:29 PM
> To: Hartman, Steve; wg-b@dnso.org
> Subject: RE: [wg-b] Points of agreement
> 
> 
> At 10:07 15.12.99 -0500, Hartman, Steve wrote:
> >I regret I cannot agree with the first. Reasonable criteria can be
> >formulated for defining a famous mark for the limited purpose of an
> >exclusionary rule. The second is probably right; it would depend in large
> >part on how many marks are deemed famous. I agree with the third.
> 
> If you say "can be formulated", I think we're still in agreement (I *so* 
> much want to have agreement on something....) because my statement was
> 
>  > - Famous marks are not defined to the point where one can make a list
> of
>  > them.
> 
> We can disagree on whether it's possible to make a reasonable list based
> on 
> reasonable criteria in the future without disagreeing about whether they 
> exist now or not.
> 
> I know, I'm clutching at straws.....
> 
>                          Harald
> 
> 
> --
> Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
> Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no