Visa vs. evisa.com In Vegas

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday November 23, 2002 @04:22AM from the registering-english-namespace dept.

wessman writes "In October 2002, Visa (the credit card company) convinced a Las Vegas federal court to prevent the small business JSL Corp. from using the term 'evisa' and the domain 'evisa.com' for its website offering travel, foreign language, and other multilingual applications and services. The court ruled that the website--run by Joe Orr from his apartment-- 'diluted' Visa's trademark, even though the site uses the word 'visa' in its ordinary dictionary definition, not in relation to credit card services. Now, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is helping JSL with an appeal. The EFF has a press release available."

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I'm sorry but... by kko · 2002-11-23 04:25 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I could not stand it.... First Post!!!!!

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No, seriously, I just come here for the articles.
FIRSTVS POSTVS by Anonymous Coward · 2002-11-23 04:25 · Score: -1, Offtopic

NVFF SAID!
Re:goat by Anonymous Coward · 2002-11-23 05:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Good stuff.

About time you fixed your shitty ascii art, though there are still some stray characters, at least you can see what you're trying to draw. It's a much more effective troll when you don't have to stare at it for 20 minutes.

Good morrow to you, sir