[SlugLUG] ucsc.biz

[Thomas Leavitt]

... well, if you can find anyone unhappy enough about whatever ties UCSC 
has to the business community, or it's shift from a focus on liberal 
arts to technical specialities that serve Silicon Valley, etc., and they 
had the skills, time and desire to assemble a web site, and stuck 
disclaimers on it, there's a fair likelihood that they could defend the 
use as political / parody and unlikely to "confuse".

Similarly, I suspect that the folks running UCSC.com probably have a 
defensible position. They might be interested in it.

Or the folks running ucscuerethane.com / buyucsc.com ...

UCSC's trademark protection is unlikely to extend into areas unrelated 
to education or other activities regularly pursued by the institution... 
a company producing computer components, such as Universal Silicon 
Computing Corporation, for instance, could probably defend their use of 
the domain name.

The economics department might be interested in it. UCSC Business and 
Administrative Services might be interested in it.

Regards,
Thomas Leavitt

Rohan Sheth wrote:
> True, the school would absolutely win a UDRP case.  
>
> Again, I haven't yet found a use for the domain...I'm just wondering if
> anyone wants it or if anyone has an idea of what to do with it.
>
> --Rohan
>
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:12:07 -0800
> Todd Nagengast <tnagenga at ucsc.edu> wrote:
>
>   
>> Rohan Sheth wrote:
>>     
>>> I checked the US Patent and Trademark Office.  (www.uspto.gov).
>>>
>>> The string "ucsc" is not part of any registered trademark.
>>>       
>> Registration isn't required to assert a claim over a name.
>>
>>     
>>> The only UC campuses with trademarks look like Berkeley and Davis.
>>>       
>> Perhaps the only ones with a federally /registered/ trademarks. Also
>> from the USPTO:
>>
>> Is registration of my mark required?
>> No. You can establish rights in a mark based on legitimate use of the
>> mark. However, owning a federal trademark registration on the
>> Principal Register provides several advantages...
>> --snip--
>>
>> In short if ucsc.biz was used for anything other than protest/parody,
>> UCSC would probably win an ICANN UDRP action to take possession of it.
>> And even then, they might still win.
>>
>> Todd
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