An alternative name and trademarks - genesisdotre/IslandDAO.github.io GitHub Wiki
There is one alternative name to "Island DAO". It has .com domain with $20k buy now price and I put together a low ball offer, will see how it goes...
Items required:
- Domain
- Name of the company
- Trademark
The difficulty with the trademark:
- which classes
- which jurisdictions
UK example
Elon Musk companies
Trademark squatting
https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=3966&plang=EN
This paper explores the phenomenon of “trademark squatting” – a situation in which someone other than the original brand owner obtains a trademark on a brand. The authors develop a model that shows how squatting results from market uncertainty that leads brand owners to rationally forgo registering trademarks, creating opportunities for squatting. They create an algorithm to identify squatters in the Chilean trademark register and show empirically that squatting is a persistent and systematic phenomenon. Using data on trademark oppositions, the authors find that squatting leads brand owners that have been exposed to squatting to “over-protect” their brands by registering disproportionately many trademarks and covering classes other than those directly related to their products and services. Trademark squatting, therefore, creates a strategic, albeit excessive, response by brand owners which inflates trademark filings.