Previous messages: "Texas mall tries to close critical website with similar name" http://www.politechbot.com/p-02796.html "Update on Texas mall assailing critical website with similar name" http://www.politechbot.com/p-02904.html --- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:18:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Kieran Barry <kieranat_private> To: declanat_private cc: TaubmanSucksat_private Subject: Re: TaubmanSucks update 12/17/01 Hi Declan, More on Hank Mishkoff, the webmaster in a domain name/ trademark dispute who was defending himself, in part, through a "sucks.com" website. The site contained a blow-by-blow description of the dispute and copies of the legal papers. The judge (from the Sixth Circuit) in the case has issue an injunction ordering the removal of "the website". Because of earlier use of this wording, Mishkoff has interpreted this as requiring the _content of the site_ to be removed from the net. Digging through the legal papers, this is judge's wording: --quote-- 1. Defendants are hereby RESTRAINED and ENJOINED from using websites on the Internet with the following domain names: * www.taubmansucks.com * www.willowbendsucks.com * www.willowbendmallsucks.com * www.shopsatwillowbendsucks.com * www.theshopsatwillowbendsucks.com FURTHER, Defendants are ORDERED to remove the websites with the domain names: * www.taubmansucks.com * www.willowbendsucks.com * www.willowbendmallsucks.com * www.shopsatwillowbendsucks.com * www.theshopsatwillowbendsucks.com from the Internet. --endquote The judge also claims that Michigan is the correct jurisdiction for a trademark dispute about a Texas mall. IANAL, but this seems to be quite significant. Regards Kieran On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Hank Mishkoff wrote: > Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 15:16:16 -0600 > From: Hank Mishkoff <Hankat_private> > To: TaubmanSucksat_private > Subject: TaubmanSucks update 12/17/01 > > [Note: You're probably receiving this update because you expressed > an interest in my TaubmanSucks.com website. If you do not wish to > receive these updates, just let me know, and I'll remove you from > the list.] > > It's back! > > Well, sort of. > > A little more than a week ago, the judge ordered me to remove my > TaubmanSucks.com site from the Web. I was on my way out of town for > a vacation when I received the injunction, so I was unable to post > anything on the Web at that time to replace the site I was ordered > to remove. But now that I'm back, I've created a new site to pick up > the saga where it left off: > > http://www.GiffordKrassGrohSprinkleSucks.com/ > > I chose the new domain name in honor of Gifford, Krass, Groh, > Sprinkle, Anderson & Citkowski, the law firm that's been harassing > me on behalf of their client, The Taubman Company. (If the name > "Taubman" sounds familiar, it may be because their founder and > chairman, Alfred Taubman, was convicted of price-fixing last week. I > should have described him as Taubman's "former" chairman, because he > resigned shortly after he was convicted.) > > Anyway, please take a look at the new site. I'm interested in your > reactions, so please do let me know what you think. > > Thanks for your interest -- and, as always, thanks for your support! > Hank Mishkoff > Hankat_private > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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