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Old 01-06-2009, 07:06 PM   #11 (permalink)
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It might be sarcastic, but there is a kernel of wisdom in it.

Absent more information, there is no way to have a truly intelligent discussion about this.

Example: If you just owned a domain that "happened" to become a trademark, like you owned www.jetred.com and in a year, a new airline called Jet Red launched, you wouldn't likely have bad faith registration. Of course, the myspace.co.uk example above is a good cautionary tale for how a previously innocent registration can mature into an infringement if you don't act properly.

On the other hand, if you registered deltanorthwest.com two years ago for some inexplicable reason, and now that they announced that Delta and Northwest are going to merge, you wouldn't necessarily be considered to be an innocent victim of circumstance. I suppose if you had an innocent explanation for that, you would.

But as the joker above has pointed out, without more, this is going to be nothing more than a jumble of possibly - applicable hypotheticals.
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