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Originally Posted by jberryhill And if you bother to look, not a single one of the parties you mentioned has the slightest interest in .eu names. |
Why be vague?
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Originally Posted by jberryhill You are suffering from the delusion that affected a lot of people during the ICANN WG-B discussions several years ago, and during the entirely pointless WLS debate - i.e. there is some definition of "fair" which confers a greater likelihood that I will get what I want, while preventing "bad" people from getting what they want.
The point of the sunrise period was to keep nasty evil cybersquatters from getting names to which TM owners believe they are entitled. The thing is that not all of the TM owners had everything that some of the TM owners were pushing as a requirement to qualify for a domain name. So the requirements were relaxed and the Benelux TM office intentionally kicked into high gear for the sole purpose of accomodating people who wanted to follow the rules. |
Are you saying that Benelux TM office lately exists only so that some "overseas phantoms" can apply for bogus trademarks irrelavant to their stated TM claims under that juristiction?
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Originally Posted by jberryhill The rules were not "circumvented", dude, the rules were followed. |
Where exatly in the Eurid rule is stated that anybody can apply for bogus Benelux trademarks upon which they can make claims for domains? Your own "read between the lines" rule following credo, I suspect, is not based on your own extensive knowledge of Eurid "unwritten" rules in regards to actual Benelux or European law, but on your own momentary and subjective pulp fiction interpretantion of the situation based upon high-blood pressure emotions and "legally cemented" knowledge "acquired" from years of dealing with ruthless and largely farcial American legal system where big corporations and presidents are allowed to walk free from their crimes on such "read between the lines" kindergarden technicalities.
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Originally Posted by jberryhill Setting up a legal entity in Europe is not some "technicality". |
If you bothered to read my previous post you could have seen that my beef is not with last hour esteblished "phantom legal entities", but with Eurid allowing obviously bogus trademarks as a perfectly valid basis on which one could apply domain claims in Sunrise period. That is not to say that those who took Eurid for a ride are not "morally bankrupt".
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Originally Posted by jberryhill Something like 75% of NYSE-listed corporations are chartered in Delaware, which aside from being my place of residence, is a place where a $100 bill makes you every bit as much a legal corporation as Exxon. |
Again you are talking about "technicalities" without addressing the "issue" as to why these TM applications were submitted to Benelux TM office in the first place.
Can I apply and be granted quick rights to 100s of simultaneous bogus trademarks in Delaware? Do tell?
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Originally Posted by jberryhill Any system of rules - any system - defines a course of conduct for obtaining a desired result. |
That smacks of typical and quintesential interpretation of the corporate American bullshit which is taken as a gospel in your professional circles. In real world the interpretation of "any system of rules - any system" defines a course of conduct for not obtaining a potentially wrong result.
So I guess while you are interpreting that yahoos "followed those rules" by applying for all those trademarks first, I am interpreting that by doing so they "exploited the system". Paradoxically the system can very well be exploited by following the rules (especially "unwritten" ones) and that makes this whole issue pointless indeed. I admit that much.