I would suggest you READ the parent carefully. "Gmail.com" was NOT under dispute anytime. Nobody had REGISTERED the trademark UNTIL google announced it would be doing so.
As for your comment about the Gospel Music Association, read the parent again. This matter will be taken to the courts. And they will have to hire some good lawyers to deal with it. I am sure the Gospel Music Association would like to throw money like water on this case, right?
Gospel Music or the other 3 companies NEVER filed a claim for the domain name itself. Still got any comments about fanboyism?
. You might be on the wrong end of this trademark case. You might think that if you get this trademark, you can get a settlement from google but with your "opportunistic" dash to the USPTO to register Gmail, you are harming further business for your company.
This case will come up for dispute at the USPTO and will be taken to the ICANN too. With your dash to the USPTO "after" Google's announcement, you will have to pay for good legal counsel to settle this case. And the strong indications are that it will most likely not go in your favor. Google legally owns the domain gmail.com. It announced its intentions "before" you filed for the trademark. Gmail was previously run as Garfield mail( it was a part of the garfield comic strip website). They sold this domain name to Google.
A company that owns a domain name that is not in dispute automatically owns the right to use the domain itself.
This is a very public case and the negative publicity you generate will turn away new clients. I would suggest you re-consider your actions. Clients do not like to deal with litigious companies and will take their business elsewhere. The last thing clients want to do is pay the tab of your lawyers for cases like these which is not connected in any way whatsoever with the core services your provide.
has there been any dispute for the domain name itself? No. Google owns it legally. The 4 companies who went to the USPTO went AFTER they came to know of gmail.
Google owns the domain gmail. Case over. If this dispute comes over at USPTO and/or ICANN, Google will win the case.
For those 4 companies, they are leeches. The only people who benefit handsomely from this is the lawyers.
Another point is that you can make the ipod a remote control but using it would be a different thing. I leave the remote control on the couch or a chair after seeing tv. It won't matter if somebody sat on it by mistake but I dare not leave my mp3 player there for the fear that if someone sits on it accidentally, it'll be toast. People take much more care of their ipods than their remote controls..
wakeup call for the people who receive such email? If you are stupid enough to believe the original 419 emails, then these assasination emails could certainly have an impact. It'll just spread word about this scam faster.
Aside- What if somebody in the us or europe threatened the would be assasinators with assasination instead? That would make for a real good laugh. Somebody should reply back that that they are in the army(or assasins themselves) and send back menacing photos of soldiers with guns, grenades strapped to the belts etc..
Anyways, I have tested a few google groups, its an odd combination of usenet and yahoo groups. Not planning on doing much with them unless google adds more features.
Why are people so baffled at this? The military/air force radios with more powerful signals broadcast in the same freq range.
One question is: let's say you are at a military base. If you drive to and from the base, you'd probably be using civilian cars. Now the article stated 77 % of vehicles are remote equipped. That means a percentage of vehicles at the bases have remote locking.
Have locksmiths, car dealers had to open cars at such bases, what have they encountered or is using remote locking not allowed at such bases?
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I would suggest you READ the parent carefully. "Gmail.com" was NOT under dispute anytime. Nobody had REGISTERED the trademark UNTIL google announced it would be doing so.
As for your comment about the Gospel Music Association, read the parent again. This matter will be taken to the courts. And they will have to hire some good lawyers to deal with it.
I am sure the Gospel Music Association would like to throw money like water on this case, right?
Gospel Music or the other 3 companies NEVER filed a claim for the domain name itself.
Still got any comments about fanboyism?
.
You might be on the wrong end of this trademark case. You might think that if you get this trademark, you can get a settlement from google but with your "opportunistic" dash to the USPTO to register Gmail, you are harming further business for your company.
This case will come up for dispute at the USPTO and will be taken to the ICANN too. With your dash to the USPTO "after" Google's announcement, you will have to pay for good legal counsel to settle this case. And the strong indications are that it will most likely not go in your favor. Google legally owns the domain gmail.com. It announced its intentions "before" you filed for the trademark.
Gmail was previously run as Garfield mail( it was a part of the garfield comic strip website). They sold this domain name to Google.
A company that owns a domain name that is not in dispute automatically owns the right to use the domain itself.
This is a very public case and the negative publicity you generate will turn away new clients. I would suggest you re-consider your actions. Clients do not like to deal with litigious companies and will take their business elsewhere. The last thing clients want to do is pay the tab of your lawyers for cases like these which is not connected in any way whatsoever with the core services your provide.
has there been any dispute for the domain name itself?
No. Google owns it legally.
The 4 companies who went to the USPTO went AFTER they came to know of gmail.
Google owns the domain gmail. Case over.
If this dispute comes over at USPTO and/or ICANN, Google will win the case.
For those 4 companies, they are leeches. The only people who benefit handsomely from this is the lawyers.
Heh.. nicely said.
Another point is that you can make the ipod a remote control but using it would be a different thing. I leave the remote control on the couch or a chair after seeing tv. It won't matter if somebody sat on it by mistake but I dare not leave my mp3 player there for the fear that if someone sits on it accidentally, it'll be toast. People take much more care of their ipods than their remote controls..
wakeup call for the people who receive such email? If you are stupid enough to believe the original 419 emails, then these assasination emails could certainly have an impact. It'll just spread word about this scam faster.
Aside- What if somebody in the us or europe threatened the would be assasinators with assasination instead? That would make for a real good laugh.
Somebody should reply back that that they are in the army(or assasins themselves) and send back menacing photos of soldiers with guns, grenades strapped to the belts etc..
R & D goes where manufacturing goes. Its a long article but worth reading. Relevant to the topic.
Also, read the article today itself.. tomorrow(sunday) it'll be moved to the archive section.
May 13.
Anyways, I have tested a few google groups, its an odd combination of usenet and yahoo groups. Not planning on doing much with them unless google adds more features.
Why are people so baffled at this? The military/air force radios with more powerful signals broadcast in the same freq range.
One question is: let's say you are at a military base. If you drive to and from the base, you'd probably be using civilian cars. Now the article stated 77 % of vehicles are remote equipped. That means a percentage of vehicles at the bases have remote locking.
Have locksmiths, car dealers had to open cars at such bases, what have they encountered or is using remote locking not allowed at such bases?