Domain Name Grabbing And Other Domain Name Disputes Under Swiss Intellectual Property Laws
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Domain Name Grabbing And Other Domain Name Disputes Under Swiss Intellectual Property Laws
Everybody has already heard stories about private persons registering famous trademarks as Internet domain names and then trying to sell them to the owner of the trademark. The most famous example is mcdonalds.com, registered by a journalist to serve as basis for his Internet article. It was released to Mc Donald's in exchange of a donation to a school. Very interesting is also the case of the domain name "altavista.com". In a Zurich newspaper (Neue Zürcher Zeitung) of August 7, 1998 it was published that a certain Jack Marshall has settled a two year old litigation with Digital Equipment and that Digital Equipment (now owned by Compaq) has paid as much as USD 3 millions for the domain name "altavista.com". Marshall had r...
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