On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:55:51 -0400, Francois Labreque wrote:

> Jim Henderson a écrit :
>> 
>> At the same time, consider the case of one Mike Rowe (not the guy from
>> Dirty Jobs) - he went into software development, and set up a website
>> at mikerowesoft.com - Microsoft successfully shut that site down
>> because the name would be confusing and they worked in the same market.
> 
> The reason they were succesful in shutting him down was that at one
> point he said "I'll shut it down for $10000".  From that point on, it
> became a cybersquatting case.  They eventually settled out of court.

Yeah, I remember something vaguely about that - but still, assuming that 
Microsoft went to him and said "shut it down" in the first place is the 
issue.

Jim

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