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Tue, 14 Jun 2005

On, no, not again those lawyers

Could be a news from the "hard to believe department": A German webmaster of a forum (which is financed by two advertisements banner) is admonished (dictionary translation, not sure if that is the real meaning of "abmahnen"), because on of the forum users had a pseudonym protected by trademark laws.

The lawyer calculated the amount in dispute (another dictionary translation, should mean "Streitwert") to 100000 EUR, and therefore his share to 5200 EUR to be payed within three days.

Luckily the webmaster if the forum is going to court for this matter. Hope the judges understand the net better than the trademark lawyer - or can they really expect to check every current and later every new username for trademark infringement?

Seems that this is currently covered only by german newstickers - sorry. For those, who don't understand german: Just ignore it. Just an other stupid german trademark madness. Sigh.

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Alexander Tolimar Reichle-Schmehl lives in Tuttlingen / Germany. He works as IT manager (specialized on Unix and SAN/Storage) for an international automotive supplier.

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