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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Verio applies for trademark on the term "whois" (fwd)
Looks like this thread has moved to /. -ls- Joe Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 [email protected] wrote: > > > > Word Mark WHOIS > > > Owner Name (APPLICANT) Verio Inc. > > > Owner Address 8005 S. Chester St., Suite 200 Englewood COLORADO 80112 > > > CORPORATION DELAWARE > > > Attorney of Record GLEN K. BEATON > > > Serial Number 75-742043 > > > Filing Date 07/01/1999 > > > Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING > > > Register PRINCIPAL > > > Type of Mark SERVICE MARK > > > > > > International Class 042 > > > > > > Goods and Services > > > > > > Computer services, namely, providing a computer database in the field of > > > personal and commercial address and telephone directory information and > > > other directory resources available on global information networks and > > > providing search services in connection therewith; DATE OF FIRST USE: > > > 1997.03.15; DATE OF FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 1997.03.15 > > I wonder what Stan Barber has to say about this, since he's Director of > Technical Operations at Verio. It seems rather foolish to try and > register it as a trademark since whois servers have been around much > longer than 3.15.1997, and certainly used in commercial activities when > NetSol started charging for domain registrations well before then. As far > as I can tell, WHOIS first appears back in RFC812 from March 1, 1982, and > is defined again in RFC954 in 1985. > > I've taken the liberty of cc'ing Stan, since I'm not sure if he still > participates on NANOG or not. Hopefully this is just a silly mistake of > some sort and won't smack of the Linux trademark case. > > -- > Joseph W. Shaw - [email protected] > Computer Security Consultant and Programmer > Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am."
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