Comment Re:Commercialism (Score 1) 433
How is this a corporate republic? This wasn't in the US, it was a Brazilian judge.
I hope to take this before a US court. I'm not a lawyer but I can't imagine the First Amendment would be allowed to be trammeled this way by a real judge. But who knows? I'm not exactly feeling lucky. Keep the faith.
I think this just demonstrates why several international treaties should be recycled for use as French Fry containers at the Paris McDonald's. Anybody else notice this:
At other times Bianchi borders on bazaar. When he rationalizes Complainant's rights to protection despite the fact that they don't even have a Trademark for "CORINTHIANS" (in Brazil or anywhere else), Bianchi says this about their nearest T.M., "CORINTHIAO": "CORINTHIAO in Portuguese is pronounced as Corinthian in English.
So:
They don't have a trademark.
A domain registrar has to worry about foreign language pronounciations. Maybe we should see if a different country has a word for Coca Cola or Nike and then start a soccer club... so we can use the businesses' dot com name.
