>>If they allow one company to buy the rights to another's trademark,
they can divert all searches for a competitor's web site to their web
site.<<
Are we making a leap here? Diverting searches to a competitor website
is quite a stretch from displaying advertising on a search results page
when a search containing key words is made. I think that diverting
searches would be illegal under current copyright and trademark laws.
However, I don't believe that displaying a competitors ad as part of the
search results window would be.
...then again, I am not an attorney...
Bill R
Bill Roach, CRM
Enterprise EDMS Coordinator
State of North Dakota
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