From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 14 11:56: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90D3F37B405 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:56:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20E4FBD12; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:56:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA21736; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:56:03 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0EJwnV04657; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:58:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: ulf@Alameda.net Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can anyone recommend a copyright/trademark lawyer ? References: <20020113201952.R98001@seven.alameda.net> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 14 Jan 2002 11:58:49 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20020113201952.R98001@seven.alameda.net> Message-ID: Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ulf Zimmermann 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