8 Mar
2001
8 Mar
'01
5:05 p.m.
Adrian Chadd wrote:
Whats international trademark+patent arrangements say about this? See, .com is not all US-registered, and so if you were going to do something like this, where do non-US people fit in here?
I think that's precisely the issue at hand. How does one administer a global flat name-space, given the lack of any global entity with the authority to do so? Right now, lawyers get paid big bucks by international firms to protect a trademark or company name in a multitude of jurisdictions. -rich