IP: an article on Trademark issues in the SJ Mercury News

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Who will police domain names on the Internet?
>
>                   Legitimate, competing claims to trademarks a
>                   thorny issue
>
>                   BY HOWARD MINTZ
>                   Mercury News Staff Writer
>
>                   A college student named John Abercrombie registers
>                   a Web address for Abercrombie.net and gets a letter
>                   from the legal department of upscale clothier
>                   Abercrombie & Fitch. A 12-year-old boy, ``Pokey,''
>                   sets up a Web site bearing his lifelong nickname and
>                   is warned off by the legal department of the makers
>                   of the rubbery animated figures Gumby and Pokey.
>
> [The rest cut - article available at url below.]
>
> http://www.sjmercury.com/premium/front/docs/domain25.htm