3 ms·
There's also the international issue. Different countries can have conflicting trademarks. So if you've got a valid trademark for "ACME, inc" from the US, and s
by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
There's also the international issue. Different countries can have conflicting trademarks. So if you've got a valid trademark for "ACME, inc" from the US, and someone else has a valid trademark for "ACME, inc" from the UK, who gets the ACME domain/TLD/subdomain/twitter handle/etc? Both can get legal judgements in their respective countries!
- Asooka 6y agoI'd say if you only own "ACME, Inc" in the US (UK), you only get to register acme.co.us (.co.uk). In this case, when no company owns an international ACME trademark, there should be a body that maintains acme.com as a simple text-only disambiguation page showing you links to each ACME, Inc with a description in the respective country's official language(s). I am nearly certain there is already a discussion buried at the end of some RFC about exactly this problem and proposed solutions, which weren't implemented because the good-enough solution was way cheaper than adding trademark disambiguation to the assigned names system.
- thw0rted 6y agoForget about international, within a single country you can have identical trademarks in different areas of business [1]. That's why I think we're stuck with first-come, first-served as the only fair way to allocate shared namespaces. I'm pretty sure there was an Apple Ford on the main street in my hometown -- if they get "@apple" first on the next hot social media service, why should anybody be able to take it away from them? 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer