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Article #8391Re: Purchasing a Hierarchy
From: Leigh Melton
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1994 21:54
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1994 21:54
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jbuck@synopsys.com (Joe Buck) writes:
> marym@Sun.COM (Mary Morris) writes:
>>I came across a web page that states the following:
>
>>"Internet Marketing Inc. has bought the worldwide rights to act as the
>>exclusive marketing company of the soon to be unveiled market.* hierarchy
>>(market.finance.*, market.consumer.*, market.internet.* ... you get the
>>picture) of the Usenet area of the Internet."
>
> Internet Marketing Inc. is free to set up this hierarchy if they wish to.
> But so is anyone else. I suppose they could try trademarking "market."
> (forcing competitors to use some other name).
If Internet Marketing has "bought the worldwide rights", from whom did
they buy them?
L. "Now offering landfill.* at a discount rate, email for details" M.
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