Re: Tunisian trademarks (Was: Open letter to Kelsey Grammer)

On 11/19/98, Terry Carroll <carroll[_at_]tjc.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Carl Oppedahl <carl[_at_]oppedahl.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Thomas Workman <tworkman[_at_]erols.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I believe that it is in Morocco where you can fill out a form,
> > > pay money, and instantly get a trademark, with effectively no
> > > examination other than to insure that exact mark is not already
> > > taken.
> >
> > It's Tunisia, not Morocco, but you've got the right idea. My law
> > firm was the one that identified this approach and was the first
> > to use it, in the Roadrunner.com case.
>
> So, in light of the State Street Bank case, have you tried to patent it?

My view is that the State Street Bank case did nothing to change the law. It merely affirmed the existing law from long before. (Merrill Lynch had gotten its Cash Management Account patent a decade earlier, for example.)

But no, we had not tried to patent this approach. And by now it is too late to do so, of course.

Carl Oppedahl
<carl[_at_]oppedahl.com> Received on Mon Nov 23 1998 - 14:46:24 GMT