First of all I think US Trademark does not appply in foreign country so the "Coke" word has to be registered in Switzerland before any action.
Second, because "Coke" in french *REALLY* mean cocaine the Coca-Cola company never used the term "Coke" to market its product. They refer to it as a "coca-cola" or "coca" in its short term and 99.99% of French speaking people as their native tongue always think it's about drugs when you talk about "Coke" and not about soda, the "Coca-Cola" company should apply their trademark rights in this case.
No one in Switzerland would log on to "coke.ch" to access the Coca-Cola company website but to access informations about drugs.
Also I think the "no domain squatting" law that has passed the Congresss some years ago do not apply in Switzerland anyway.
Why Slashdot would not start such movement? I mean a political/lobby group with Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda as the leader followed with hundreds of thousands of slashdotters, the Free Software Foundation preachers, all the Linux advocates, Perl scripters and DeCSS hosters.
We all can help fund such organization to polically defend our point of view and maybe see one day Linus become President and Rob his Vice-President.
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First of all I think US Trademark does not appply in foreign country so the "Coke" word has to be registered in Switzerland before any action.
Second, because "Coke" in french *REALLY* mean cocaine the Coca-Cola company never used the term "Coke" to market its product. They refer to it as a "coca-cola" or "coca" in its short term and 99.99% of French speaking people as their native tongue always think it's about drugs when you talk about "Coke" and not about soda, the "Coca-Cola" company should apply their trademark rights in this case.
No one in Switzerland would log on to "coke.ch" to access the Coca-Cola company website but to access informations about drugs.
Also I think the "no domain squatting" law that has passed the Congresss some years ago do not apply in Switzerland anyway.
Why Slashdot would not start such movement? I mean a political/lobby group with Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda as the leader followed with hundreds of thousands of slashdotters, the Free Software Foundation preachers, all the Linux advocates, Perl scripters and DeCSS hosters.
We all can help fund such organization to polically defend our point of view and maybe see one day Linus become President and Rob his Vice-President.
You have to start this.