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Username: Anthony 2nd
Date/Time: Sun, November 12, 2000 at 2:42 PM GMT
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Subject: Your trademarks are unlikely to be valid - sorry.

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Legally this is a new issue.

However, the test case was IOD vs CORE and Ken Stubbs.

IOD has registered several trademarks like yourself including .web and the.web.

Although the case did not go against IOD, summary judgement was formed because the trademark did not represent the nature of the business - only the type of business.

This is as true for my.web as it is for the.web.

If you held the trademark to the word "my" in the same way that IBM hold the trademark for the word "IBM" then you could request my.web in the sunrise period just as they can request "IBM.web".

It seems that you are in the same boat as the rest of us.

Your best bet is to try and register your desirable domains with IOD, failing that you could wait and see in my.web is still available after 60 days.

Remember that it should still be available as it is not a trademark.

The question is - how confident are you that you'll get it??

       
     

 


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