[Jewelry making - Article 00420] - Re: [Orchid] Domain names and trademarks

[gWebber]

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>     Could registering a.com domain name be considered a "poor man's 
>     trademark"?

    No, not even remotely. Example, in the early days of dot coms, large
    companies that where slow to register dotcom domains of their
    Trademarked company names (like Coke-Cola) found themselves buying
    (in some cases for big bucks) their domain names from someone smart
    enough to grab it early on. 

    More over, even registering a business name in one state doesn't
    really stop someone from registering a business by the same name in
    another state, or for that matter in the same state but as a
    diffternt business model... ie, you sell jewelry, they sell
    t-shirts. 

    As far as I know only a Registered Business with a Registered
    Trademark Name gives you that protection.... and even then you
    better buy the domain name before someone else does, even if you
    don't intend to have a website. 

gWebber
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