Visa vs. evisa.com In Vegas 184
wessman writes "In October 2002, Visa (the credit card company) convinced a Las Vegas federal court to prevent the small business JSL Corp. from using the term 'evisa' and the domain 'evisa.com' for its website offering travel, foreign language, and other multilingual applications and services. The court ruled that the website--run by Joe Orr from his apartment-- 'diluted' Visa's trademark, even though the site uses the word 'visa' in its ordinary dictionary definition, not in relation to credit card services. Now, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is helping JSL with an appeal. The EFF has a press release available."
Overzealous... (Score:3, Funny)
First post?
You can't trademark dictionary words! (Score:4, Funny)
Proper ruling (Score:5, Funny)
They are diluting the normal outlets for visa applications and work permits.
This just in (Score:4, Funny)
Lawyers from both sides have slated a preliminary meeting and hope to settle outside of court.
Slashdot's head honcho, Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, was unavailable for comments. Members of his site appear to be concerned about dealing with Visa's behemoth legal team, and plan on purchasing hot grit and goat insurance just to be safe.
Stay tuned as further details from this shocking case come to light.
Other option (Score:1, Funny)
Re:That's absurd. (Score:2, Funny)
my new domain name (Score:2, Funny)
I'm calling it e-macs.com or I might drop the dash. But it seems like I've heard that
name before...I think it's a text editor, or maybe an IDE, or a browser...
Oh well, I can just claim that they have dilluted their own trademark.
obligatory joke (Score:1, Funny)
Conversation at the border:
"Do you have a visa?"
"No, I have a mastercard"
Dictionary (Score:1, Funny)
Who saw this coming? (Score:4, Funny)
Technology professionals: massive unemployment
Lawyers: massive employment
Lucy You should go into high technology. That's where the future lies.
Charlie Brown Yeah, right. Just hold the football.
From the article: (Score:5, Funny)
Later that day, the judge assigned to the case was seen in a Jaguar dealership, obviously conducting an investigation into the visa case by using the above mentioned cards. He refused to comment.
Re:That's absurd. (Score:2, Funny)
What? Why would you trade an endorsement that allows you to stay in a country for a credit card?
The atomic particle formerly known as "electron" (Score:5, Funny)
domain dispute scoreboard (Score:3, Funny)
Some-guy-at-home : 0