<div dir="ltr">ISOC of New Zealand also hijacked the Internet Society brand - they eventually rebranded themselves, I believe. I am really unhappy about this kind of thing. I tried for quite a while re NZ and eventually they changed leadership and their attitude. The Chinese have been using the name for a long time without any affiliation. I think it may be hard to get them to stop - the trademark world is rife with cases where failure to defend the mark loses control. The term "Internet" cannot be trademarked except it has to refer to the "network of networks" we call "Internet" (a ten year battle against a banking consortium that was granted the trademark to "Internet" - it cost CNRI ten years and $100K in legal fees and only went away when there was a change in management that didn't think it was worth fighting further.). <div><br></div><div>I am glad to see that Kathy is going to dig into this further.</div><div><br></div><div>Kathy, do we have a recorded trademark for "internet society" ?</div><div><br></div><div>v</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Glenn McKnight <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mcknight.glenn@gmail.com" target="_blank">mcknight.glenn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Folks<div>Recently the ICANN ATLARGE voted to include the civil society organization called Internet Society China into the ALS membership of APRALO. They are not a ISOC Chapter. </div><div><br></div><div>I have tried to bring up the issue of organizations that confuse the public as to what is a legitimate ISOC chapter. But no one has taken notice. </div><div><br></div><div> I have been notified ISOC that the <a href="http://www.isoctoronto.org" target="_blank">www.isoctoronto.org</a> has been a rogue site for a few years I am including a screencapture of the registration page they have people falsely add their information. </div><div>We need to have a process of dealing with these type of false or rogue sites that misinform the public. Since ISOC is branding itself as a viable strong organization and it turns a blind eye to this situation we have a problem.<br>Glenn</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Glenn McKnight<br><a href="mailto:mcknight.glenn@gmail.com" target="_blank">mcknight.glenn@gmail.com</a><br>skype gmcknight<br>twitter gmcknight<br>.</div></div></div>
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