[simpits-tech] Web site registeration issue using F16 plane name

[David C. Allen]

Gene is right on!

Look at what this guy has been through:

http://www.nissan.com/Digest/The_Story.php

David

At 10:44 PM 8/4/2007 -0700, you wrote:
> > I am the owner of www.f16simulators.com This past week I was contacted by
> > lawyers in Newark for Lockheed Martin asking me to relinquish the domain
> > to them or let it expire in a few years without making use of it. They
> > sent me 5mb of trade mark registration documents where F16 has been
> > registered in many jurisdictions around the world proving ownership in
> > the F16 trademark.
> >
> > Stating that my ownership of a web site that includes F16 in relation to
> > a product registered in law is a use of their trademark without their
> > permission.
> >
>
>If it was _me_ ( and I'm NOT a lawyer), I'd tell them that since the F-16
>was developed at the request of the USAF and was paid for with public
>funds, they can go pound sand.
>
>According to this page:
>http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=n6qap2.2.3
>
>"F-16" was not registered by Lockmart until July 12, 2004.
>So it took them over 20 years to register a trademark?  (The F-16 program
>started in 1974)
>
>Your domain was registered in 2003, prior to the registration of their
>trademark.  If you have the time, I'd fight this as hard as you can.
>
>g.
>
>
>
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