RE: [wg-c] I/O Design Initiates Legal Proceedings against CORE

[Ivan Pope <ivan@netnames.com>]

> 
> 
> Perhaps relevant...
> 
> Here's a question: If CORE has a TM for .web in Europe, and IODesign
> has a TM for .web in the US, which rights prevail?
> 
> More to the point -- should ICANN get involved in disputes like 
> this? 

Or maybe we could ask: should this Working Group be proposing a set of gTLDs
which are specifically claimed as Trademarks by another organisation?

"  CORE, by filing applications for
> federal trademark registration for six marks, including .WEB, 
> has indicated
> that it believes that trademark rights apply to domain registry and
> registrar services."

Ivan