[12343] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Internet Trademarks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (DAN L. BURK)
Mon May 16 13:36:39 1994
Date: 16 May 94 11:43:00 EST
From: "DAN L. BURK" <DBURK@gmuvax.gmu.edu>
To: "com-priv" <com-priv@psi.com>
Brad Templeton writes:
> only exist modifying generic nouns. Thus you can have "Apple Computer"
> and "Apple Auto Glass." It hasn't been the case in the past, but if they
> had happened to be first, one can't see a reason to deny Apple Auto Glass
> a domain like apple.com.
I take it that you missed the Beatles/Yoko Ono lawsuit against Apple Computer
over the "Apple Corps" label -- I guess that Apple Auto Glass just better not
have an ftp site with any music files in it.
Dan L. Burk
George Mason University
dburk@gmuvax.gmu.edu
