RE: [wg-c] trademark law & new gTLDs

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

Because no one has thought of it before? Write it up and see if it
floats. BTW, a proposal has already been floated to register only
trademarked TLDs. Such a registry doesn't need ICANN and can use
trademark law to prevent name conflict created by other registries.
There is even some indication that such TLDs might even pass US PTO
muster, in that FORD.tmTLD would, by definition, not be considered to be
diluting FORD.COM, under trademark law.

If the IP lawyers on this list would care to comment, I'm definitely
taking notes.

From: owner-wg-c@dnso.org [mailto:owner-wg-c@dnso.org]On Behalf Of Mark
Measday
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 10:27 PM
To: Jonathan Weinberg

Why isn't there an extended proposal mirroring tm classes then?

Jonathan Weinberg wrote:
        I've been off-list for a few days, so I'm going to play catch-up
just a

        What's the answer?  You got it — MORE gTLDs.  In meatspace,
consumers cope

general-purpose.  (Now, if I have a domain named ford.biz, *and* I use
www.ford.biz to sell cars, then plainly people will be confused no
matter
how many gTLDs there are.  That's trademark infringement.  But that's a
different case.)