jojjewestin wrote:
Is it not the same issues with domains, that I simply send the traffic elsewhere? If I’m not allowed to send the traffic from my pokerxyz.org domain to pokerxyz.com I’ll just send it to pokeraaa.com hence bad for the company that owns the brand.
/George
Hey George.
I don’t think it’s the same thing at all – after all brand name registration and trademarks are a fact of life in the commerical world – and we’ve seen plenty of recent decisions were the established brand name wins the right to protect.
So while poker can’t be protected – its a generic term – partypoker can be.
In the REAL world you can’t setup a shop called (say) coca cola traders and push pepsi or other colas. That’s breaching the trademark as you’re attracting custom pretending to represent a company that you don’t.
Agreed?