1. Another concern is that Internic overwhelmingly favors trademark owners over those with registered domain names. 2. By doing so, the newspaper helps trademark owners protect the words they own. 3. Moreover, it is not clear how many companies and trademark owners eligible to participate in early registration processes are aware that queues are forming for the new names. 4. Owners of the names are pitted against trademark owners who contend that their marks are being compromised. 5. Preferred Risk and other trademark owners argued unsuccessfully that the appeals court misread a key pair of federal statutes. 6. Some big trademark owners are particularly worried that Congress does not grasp the importance of brands. 7. So-called cybersquatters register names they know are trademarked, hoping to coerce payment from the trademark owners. 8. The lawsuit dramatizes the ongoing struggle between domain name users and trademark owners in cyberspace. 9. The remaining sites either have been or are being re-registered to the trademark owners, or have been shut down. 10. The U.S. Supreme Court, dealing a setback to trademark owners, today refused to consider whether companies can press trademark infringement suits against the federal government. |