IP: Domain name trademark policy of Mexico

[Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

From: Carl Oppedahl <carl () oppedahl com>


A bit of surfing took me to the Mexican NIC web site, which sets forth their
policy <http://www.nic.mx/cgi-bin/domain.pl> regarding domain names and
trademarks:


"Registering a domain name does not confer any legal rights to that name and
any disputes between parties over the rights to use a particular name are to
be settled between the contending parties using normal legal methods." 


The Swiss policy is quite similar <http://www.nic.ch/policy_03.htm>.  It
would be interesting if someone could find the time to collect the domain
name trademark policies of all the top-level domains of the Internet and
compare them.  I suspect it would turn out that NSI is in the distinct
minority (probably a minority of one) in its decision to provide a free
legal-services clinic for trademark owners, providing no-cost preliminary
injunctive relief for them.  NSI is probably also in the distinct minority
in getting sued so often as a result of its policy.







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