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Subject: Re: [OM] New web site
From: "R. Lee Hawkins" <lhawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 21:35:56 -0400
Cc: lhawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In your message dated: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 19:45:57 EDT you write:
>>http://www.zuiko.com
>
>That was slick to grab zuiko.com. But do you think Olympus will let you
>keep it? Of course if they do it shows exactly how little they care about
>things these days... Still, it couldn't have been taken by a better guy <g>

They don't have much choice unless John willingly gives it back to them
or they pay him for it (I suppose they could "blackmail" him into giving
it back, but then I'm sure he'd have the basis for a criminal case
charging blackmail).  There exist persons who grabbed dozens of
www.famoustrademarkname.com sites, and then proceeded to sell the owners
of the trademark the address for several tens of thousands of dollars,
and in at least one case, I think, several hundred thousand dollars.  At
first this practice seemed kinda scummy to me, but after that feeling
wore off, I was just mad I hadn't thought of it first.  Oh yeah, the
right to do this has been held up in court, too.

Cheers,
--Lee

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