[27010] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verio applies for trademark on the term "whois" (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Snyder)
Fri Feb 4 18:27:16 2000
From: Larry Snyder <larrys@lexis-nexis.com>
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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 18:25:09 -0500 (EST)
To: jshaw@insync.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net> wrote:
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> On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
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> > > Word Mark WHOIS
> > > Owner Name (APPLICANT) Verio Inc.
> > > Owner Address 8005 S. Chester St., Suite 200 Englewood COLORADO 80112
> > > CORPORATION DELAWARE
> > > Attorney of Record GLEN K. BEATON
> > > Serial Number 75-742043
> > > Filing Date 07/01/1999
> > > Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
> > > Register PRINCIPAL
> > > Type of Mark SERVICE MARK
> > >
> > > International Class 042
> > >
> > > Goods and Services
> > >
> > > Computer services, namely, providing a computer database in the field of
> > > personal and commercial address and telephone directory information and
> > > other directory resources available on global information networks and
> > > providing search services in connection therewith; DATE OF FIRST USE:
> > > 1997.03.15; DATE OF FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 1997.03.15
>
> I wonder what Stan Barber has to say about this, since he's Director of
> Technical Operations at Verio. It seems rather foolish to try and
> register it as a trademark since whois servers have been around much
> longer than 3.15.1997, and certainly used in commercial activities when
> NetSol started charging for domain registrations well before then. As far
> as I can tell, WHOIS first appears back in RFC812 from March 1, 1982, and
> is defined again in RFC954 in 1985.
>
> I've taken the liberty of cc'ing Stan, since I'm not sure if he still
> participates on NANOG or not. Hopefully this is just a silly mistake of
> some sort and won't smack of the Linux trademark case.
>
> --
> Joseph W. Shaw - jshaw@insync.net
> Computer Security Consultant and Programmer
> Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am."
