I don't think Paul has the rights to himself as a topic of conversation, as this page seemed to be. Maybe if they were impersonating him, or squatting on the address, I'd agree he had a case, but in this instance it is a site that has been running for 5 years talking about him as a subject, it seems like a legitimate use, the same way you can satire a public figure.
Page 8 is where Paul's best case against them is addressed by the panel.
Ron Paul claims common law trademark (so not a formal ownership like it thought) on his name. The standard for this is very clear:
"In order to establish common law trademark or service mark rights in a personal name, it is necessary for the party asserting such rights to demonstrate that the name has been used to identify goods or services in commerce, and that the public associates the personal name with a good or service provided by the person identified by the name."
Apparently political use of his name does not count so campaign merchandise doesn't qualify. Ron Paul sells books on the basis of his name, they represent his thoughts about politics and economics. People who buy these books want to know what Ron Paul thinks. They do not buy them because they want a book on politics. They buy them because they want Ron Paul's book on politics.
I do find it interesting that to claim the domain name you must specifically show bad faith, not simply rights to it.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Ron Paul Runs Crying to the UN (to screw his own supporters)
Mercury isn't necessarily fatal. There was a guy in Southeast Asia who'd been taking mercury capsules for years, and one day after falling seriously ill crapped out something like half a pound of mercury. He survived.
And my impression is that Ron Paul does see the ultimate aim of the UN as that of destroying nation-state sovereignty and absorbing all nations including the US into a one world government.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ron Paul Runs Crying to the UN (to screw his own supporters)
Fair enough.
"These are "fan sites" profiting off his name, not sites of his own making that he wants seized. And just like anyone else would have to do in a case like this, he's going through WIPO, (an organization that just happens to be an affiliate of the UN), to have the issue resolved."
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