Re: [ox-en] Patents and Copyright, but what about Trademarks?
- From: Graham Seaman <graham seul.org>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 05:39:34 -0500 (EST)
Hi Russell,
Ooops.. replying to these in the wrong order; I replied to Martin's post
before reading yours..
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Russell McOrmond wrote:
Here are some ideas to add to your thinking. Where it is just a well
defined company, product or services name, then there aren't many
problems. Note I only said 'many' as there still are pretty serious
problems such as http://www.rtmark.com/etoy.html .
Trademarks have gotten out of control as much as patents and copyrights
have where a good thing taken too far becomes a bad thing.
<snip actual examples>
Do you happen to know how far this is a US-internal problem or a global
one? If global, is that just because the US are effectively imposing their
law on everyone else, or because all the local trademark
laws/administrations have the same flaws?
Secondly, is there a simple flaw in trade mark law you'd like to see
removed, or is it just a question of trade marks being badly administered?
Cheers
Graham
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