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Username: dotweb
Date/Time: Sun, July 9, 2000 at 2:48 AM GMT
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Subject: Question for IPLAWYER (and other lawyers): Trademarks and non-profit organizations

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Since the only means of preventing "reverse hijacking" is to have a REGISTERED trademark (as demonstrated by recent WIPO rulings), I have the following questions:

1. Since a REGISTERED trademark requires use in "interstate commerce", does this mean that only companies doing business for profit are eligible to REGISTER a trademark?

2. Do registered non-profit organizations "engage in commerce", in the legal sense? Can they REGISTER a trademark?

3. If the answer to 2 is no, then are all non-profit organizations totally at the mercy of large for-profit entities, and in danger of losing their domains via WIPO mismanagement?


 


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