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The good guys win one: Unicom foiled in noisome trademark lawsuit
- Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 18:46:10 -0500
- To: politech@politechbot.com
- Subject: FC: The good guys win one: Unicom foiled in noisome trademark lawsuit
- From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
- Cc: hip@unicom.com, postmaster@unicomsi.com, webmaster@unicomsi.com
Previous Politech message:
Veteran unicom.com owner sued by firm with new Unicom trademark
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02999.html
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Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 15:08:03 -0800
To: declan@well.com
From: "James S. Tyre" <jstyre@jstyre.com>
Subject: Re: FC: Veteran unicom.com owner sued by firm with new Unicom
trademark
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Declan:
I'm pleased to tell you that we have an early victory in Unicom v. Rosenthal.
There are plenty of things wrong with the Complaint, including the
substance of Plaintiff's trademark claims. But what was most wrong about
it was that it was filed here in Los Angeles, when Plaintiff knew that Chip
lives in Austin, and has no meaningful ties to California.
Yesterday, the Court entered its order dismissing the Complaint for lack of
personal jurisdiction. Chip has the Order up at
http://save.unicom.com/docs/20020204-order.pdf. Obviously, we don't know
yet if Plaintiff will appeal, drop the matter, refile in Austin or follow
some other path, but getting the case out of the wrong court is, at the
least, a very positive step.
-Jim
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