Recently I received a challenge to the name of one of my applications
from a trademark holder. At the time I created it I could not find a
competing app with that name. My app was created in 2003 and a new
company apparently acquired a 1999 trademark in February 2005. It is
interesting that the trademark in 1999 and the new one in 2005 where
for different applications. I had no problem with this and gladly
changed the name. It did raise some questions though. A URL with that
name predates 1999 and is registered to a different company. So who
trumps who in this situation? Can a trademark force you to chance a
preexisting domain name?
Another question is can a trademark name be part of a URL as in, for
example,
http://mydomain.com/pepsi/books/interesting.html?
Carl
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