PAB [Fwd: bahnhof.de]

From: Robert Shaw (robert.shaw@itu.int)
Date: Thu Dec 18 1997 - 00:26:33 PST


POC, PAB, CORE,

See attached.

An interesting judgement concerning registration of a generic
term in Germany under .de

Robert

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Robert Shaw <robert.shaw@itu.int>
Advisor, Global Information Infrastructure
International Telecommunication Union <http://www.itu.int>
Place des Nations, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland

attached mail follows:


In October a court in Germany decided that not everybody is allowed to use or own the domain bahnhof.de. The translation for "Bahnhof" is "railway-station" (or "depot" in the US).

The decision was not based on trademark law but on law against unfair competition. The plaintiff is the "Deutsche Bundesbahn AG" - the railway-company.

The complete text (in its original language) is available here: http://www.netlaw.de/urteile/lgk_5.htm

Andreas

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