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While GEAC's trademark might not be that famous, consider this, what is the domain name at issue was cocacola.net, and it pointed to Pepsi's website? Or more likely, pointed to a Coke distributor. In such cases, clearly Mueller does not think that trademark owners should own these type of domain names, but rather, that domain name registrants have a legitimate right to use them even though the registrants are using another trademark for commercial purposes.
I disagree with his view. GEAC might not be a very protectable mark, the facts were clear, Newtec used the domain name to point to its own site. Check out the search on Archive.org as proof: http://web.archive.org/web/20010608054549/www.reportingtools.com/index.asp.
Newtec acted in bad faith, the majority saw it, the majority rules.
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Mueller says, "The Respondent is a servicer and systems integrator of Geac products, and as such has a legitimate interest in the use of the Geac name."
You say, "what [if] the domain name at issue was cocacola.net, and it pointed to ... a Coke distributor."
I'm not a lawyer, but logic tells me that if the Coke distributor is licensed to use the cocacola trademark etc., it has a legitimate interest in using the domain name.
So what's your point besides being adolescently contrary? Is that why you remain "anonymous"?
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