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Username:	psbyowner
Date/Time:	Mon, October 22, 2001 at 3:01 PM GMT
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Subject:	NO ONE can trademark Hawaii
Message:
Hawaii is a descriptive term and should be difficult if not impossible to trademark. As you have illustrated, this is a case of Afilias corporate insiders taking advantage of their position with false claims to a generic term. In court this could be an anti-trust violation as well as fraud.
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Message Thread:

• Genuine HAWAII Trademark Holder — rachelmacgregor, October 22 @ 2:33 PM (2/17)
• OK LETS HAVE A VOTE. Shall we inform Hawaii TM owners that they can screw Leopold? I vote YES! — spot, October 22 @ 4:30 PM (1/1)
• Yes — Garry Anderson, October 22 @ 8:04 PM (0/0)
• NO ONE can trademark Hawaii — psbyowner, October 22 @ 3:01 PM (1/14)
• WRONG -- it's trademarked multiple times — Watchman, October 22 @ 3:18 PM (1/13)
• Generic terms CAN be trademarked — spot, October 22 @ 4:25 PM (2/12)
• True — Garry Anderson, October 22 @ 8:00 PM (0/0)
• So the bottom line is: anything can be trademarked? — vera-city, October 22 @ 6:29 PM (2/10)
• Pretty much..here's the deal — Watchman, October 22 @ 8:57 PM (0/0)
• Generic terms — onmove, October 22 @ 7:23 PM (2/8)
• Thats Right and — investor, October 22 @ 8:43 PM (0/0)
• I agree, but suggest an exception be made since the fraudster in this case is on the Registry board. — spot, October 22 @ 8:40 PM (1/6)
• Actually Govinda Leopold has an explanation — richard_henderson, October 22 @ 9:33 PM (2/5)
• Hey, maybe FortKnox.info was a "test mistake" too? — vera-city, October 23 @ 4:52 AM (0/0)
• Three weeks later did Govinda make "another" mistake? — richard_henderson, October 22 @ 9:46 PM (2/3)
• Quote from Govinda's own homepage! — richard_henderson, October 22 @ 10:13 PM (0/0)
• Leopold is talking out of her arse — spot, October 22 @ 10:10 PM (1/1)
• Leoppold's company has a bad reputation — Anion, October 23 @ 7:32 PM (0/0)

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