Geeklawyer is a huge fan of Apple’s OS and hardware. they really are pretty spiffing. He can’t say the same for their litigation. The corporate monster is, of course, a beast and a paradox for all Apple fanboys.
One of the utterly repellant features of ICANN is its determination to please large corporate groups by deciding against ’suck’ domains and various other malcontents. Nominet, the UK ICANN equivalent, is marginally better but still with a fondness for cretinous decisions in the same spirit.
Cohen the repellant spotty jewish youth with an old school Thatcherite desire for making money was clever enough to grab itunes.co.uk before knowing Apple would use this as their own UK trademark. Geeklawyer regards this as a somewhat ‘lucky’ choice but it seems no evidence exists of any form of malfeasance, other than good judgement that is.
Geeklawyer has always regarded the arbitration processes of ICANN and Nominet as something of a lynch mob in which the victim gets to choose the redneck who will hang him. He has always advised clients that if it really matters then they are better of going straight to the grown-ups in the High Court.
Sadly it seems that the High Court reckons that litigants should use the farce first. Great, if you are rich, but it might be more attractive if they didn’t use their own maliciously skewed version of IP law.
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