trademark issue solved, the .eu wat

[Peter]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/05/10/eu.galileo.ap/index.html

I like it. It basically says that anyone dumb enough to shell out money 
on a well-known name as a trademark deserves his Darwin award (well, 
first mention). Imho, that's the reasonable way to do it. What's not 
reasonable, is that they had to take it to court. Think about all those 
consumer products, restaurant chains etc, using common names in their 
brand, and what it would mean for someone who bears one of those names 
to be sued to rename his or her personal website, or mom&pop diner. Not 
that it hasn't happened before. Imho the issue of the powers that be 
acknowledge public property, such as intellectual property of names by 
their holders and by the public (even posthumously) (and well-known 
technologies known to be in the public domain), is a BURNINGLY HOT ISSUE 
and should be addressed fully now, especially with genetics, alternate 
medicine and vaccine synthesis methods and so forth making progress.

There are several companies which have noted this need and have renamed 
themselves to meaningful and yet unique names (newly created names which 
do not clash with existing public intellectual property). What about the 
others ?

Peter
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