Chicagoist: Chicago Olympic Bid Team Suing Owner of Chicago2016.com

dotcommie

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:02:17 -0600

He registered the site four days before Chicago 2016 registered the trademark.

dj_skilz

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:33:13 -0600

First filing from what I can tell was Oct 11, 2006 for Trademark and ServiceMark recognition. USPTO Filing Record Chicago2016.com via DNSTOOLS

The Curmudgeon

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:19:04 -0600

Why do these people even care? It's absurd for the Olympics to be in this city, which was just named as, what was it again, THE MOST STRESSFUL CITY IN THE COUNTRY? I still don't know how we made it this far to be oue of three finalists.

dopplerd

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:29:17 -0600

Visit this site. This guy has been in a lawsuit with Nissan Motors USA for almost 10 years now. The whole story is is detailed here. So Chicago 2016 can make a big stink about this but it is likely that the 2016 Olympics will be over before they own the domain.

grandma

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:21:31 -0600

Finders keepers, losers weepers

Margaret Lyons

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:09:47 -0600

Cannot believe I missed the "eminent domain" joke for the headline. Ten points, Where!

whereinchicago

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:07:47 -0600

So the Chicago Olympics folks have gotten butthurt over speculation on domain names? Opportunists have been registering domain names well in advance of any type of publicity/notoriety since the beginning of the Internet. Simply because the spokespeople feel that it's 'natural' for them and their cause doesn’t give them eminent domain -- pun intended.

Paul Coady

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:56:28 -0600

Margaret - Do you know when Chicago 2016 was trademarked? I had read that this individual purchased the domain a full two years before the bid was initiated, so I'm wondering if that predates the trademark application. With all the legalese of trademarks, that might not make any difference in the case, but I think it affects the "fair play" issues here. As if fair play and Olympics can be mentioned in the same paragraph.

BWChicago

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:49:25 -0600

was it trademarked in 2004?

Margaret Lyons

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:42:49 -0600

Chicago 2016 is trademarked, which as far as I understand changes the game.

Tower18

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:40:57 -0600

If http://www.whitehouse.com was allowed to be a porn site for some time (and is still not involved with the Federal government), then what's the issue here?

lamgray

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:35:19 -0600

I think he has every right to create a foreign discussion about it just as the ppl do for the event. Its very clearly marked that it is not associated. Why should the city automatically get it b/c they are bigger? They have the .org site, which actually SHOULD be the one they have the extension for.