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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

I thought that was Amnon?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Smith" <anilorac AT nc.rr.com>
To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/";
<internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] [Not a joke] AOL is suing me!


> I recently read AOL's trademark rights to "Instant Messenger" were
> upheld by the courts, so it is really no surprise they are trying to
> stamp out the use of said term by unrelated parties.
>
> Not so dissimilar to Chapel Hill's old HardBack Cafe being sued by Hard
> Rock, and the more recent Victor's Little Secret/Victoria's Secret
> brouhaha.  Uzi Nissan was sued for the rights to the Nissan domain name,
> which he did not give up, but agreed to convert his site to
> non-commercial use although Uzi clearly had been using the nissan domain
> name for years before Nissan Corp took exception.
>
> Intellectual property rights give me a headache.
>
>
> Paul Jones wrote:
>
> >I would have agreed with Gina (and did as my note telling Josep just to
> >remove the word "Instant" which would have made his pages compliant to
the
> >AOL request and actually describe the product that he is talking about on
> >his pages) -- until I read this:
> >http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=75497543
> >(thanks to whoever on this list looked that up.
> >
>
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