Re: [wg-c] Setting a bad example

["Kevin J. Connolly" <CONNOLLK@rspab.com>]

>>> "Mark C. Langston" <skritch@home.com> 08/05/99 02:23PM >>>

>For what it's worth, the same companies that complain about TM
>infringement and cybersquatting are guilty of encouraging the behavior.
>It only takes a small handful of these types of incidents (indeed,
>I believe only a small handful exist) to convince every quick-buck
>artist out there that there's millions to be made in the namespace:


It bears noting that "drug.com" in the context of pharmaceuticals does not
infringe or implicate any kind of trademark I can imagine.  "Drug" is at best
descriptive, if not generic, in this context (I've always been fuzzy about where
there line between generic and descriptive come in, but in this case,
I'm reasonably sure, there's no trademark involved).

I.e., it's not cybersquatting to register "drug.com" intending to sell it to a drug
company, "auto.com" for sale to a car company, or "propellorbeanie.com" for
sale to the IETF :-)  

KJC

:include yada

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