Microsoft goes after 17 year old to get this domain

How far Microsoft prepared to go.

[max_rk]

Its seems these days each week new stories applier in the press about Microsoft's law suits. The latest subject may be Mike Rove, 17 year old from Canada who is using Mikerowesoft.com domain name for his website to promote web development business. Microsoft says that domain is too similar to its name and may confuse users.

Many experts (including me ;))would say that this case wouldn't go much further beyond this point as Microsoft does not have good ground but it does not stop them to intimidate Mr Rove.

It probably going to do more good then harm to Mike overall.

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Max.rk

[edited by: max_rk at 2:08 pm (utc) on Jan. 19, 2004]

[PCInk]

> It's like Toys-R-Us suing (and winning) every domain name with -R- implied in it, regardless of content or intent.

I haven't checked it, but I heard that Toy-R-Us was not a registered trademark, but 'R-Us' is. If it is true, any company with 'R-Us' in it, could theoretically be sued for this.

[korkus2000]

Wow you guys have taken this far off from what it is. It is not R-us and something or INTEL and something it is just the trademark phonetically; Microsoft. They are not suing because the name is mikerowesoftware or anything like that. It is just the trademark.

Also we are not talking about just his name. There is already cases that would deal with that like the bruce springsteen case. He would be able to keep the domain.

Lets be honest. He is a web designer. It is rare to associate soft with web design. Soft is usually associated with application development.

<edit>fixed typo</edit>

[edited by: korkus2000 at 2:07 pm (utc) on Jan. 21, 2004]

[sidyadav]

Lets be honest. He is a web designer. It is rare to associate soft with web design. Soft is usually associated with application development.

thats what I've been saying since post#61:

For one thing, it sounds stupid for a web design company to have a 'soft' in front of it

but everyone else is too busy comparing other cases with this one, or making fun of Mike's name ;) or re-stating one opinion told a thousand times, in this thread :)

Sid