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[Dan Smith <anilorac AT nc.rr.com>]

I don't know anything about Amnon and Uzi, only that Nissan Computer Corp
was sued by Nissan Motor Corp for ownership of the nissan.com domain.  Uzi
was interviewed extensively in the local press about the court battle during
and after.  In the end, he retained nissan.com as original domain owner,
preventing Nissan Motor from forcibly taking it from him.  But, if used,
the site has to be non-commercial in nature per the court order.

I thought the whole thing was bogus b/c Nissan Computer Corp used the domain
long before Nissan Motor decided to finally put up a website in mid 90's
attempted to co-opt the domain ownership rights as a larger international
company. 


Bill Geschwind wrote:
> I thought it was Uzi Nissan that ran Nissan Computer Corp. If I'm not
> mistaken and please correct me if I'm wrong, in the early 90s he ran it
> while his brother Amnon ran a separate, computer related business, and I
> vaguely remember reading at some point that the two reached some sort of
> agreement allowing both to work for Nissan Computer Corp.  
>
> - Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Shea
> Tisdale
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 12:55 PM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] [Not a joke] AOL is suing me!
>
> 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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