Date: 14 Jan 2002 11:58:49 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: ulf@Alameda.net Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can anyone recommend a copyright/trademark lawyer ? Message-ID: <fwbsfwwvpi.sfw@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20020113201952.R98001@seven.alameda.net> References: <20020113201952.R98001@seven.alameda.net>
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Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> writes: > This is a trademark or copyright problem for me and so I need > a lawyer for this. I assume you mean they registered it with a domain registrar, not the trademark office. While you're looking for a lawyer, you should go to http://www.uspto.gov/ and google.com and educate yourself about trademarks. It's pretty easy reading at USPTO.gov and there's LOTS more elsewhere. You can get a non-official determination of whether your trademarks have been registered by someone else there (and probably an official one for $). You can also start registering your marks which costs a few (3-5?) hundered dollars, but if you can get a lawyer soon, maybe you should wait; your guess is as good as mine. There's also a lot to read about the effect of trademark law on domain names and domain name fights, etc, out on the web. Some trademark law is http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/15/1125.html but there's no substitute for a lawyer if you need to play their game. But you probably don't want to learn the difference between trademark and copyright, etc, at lawyer rates. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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