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GM Celebes manufacturing electronic goods and FryChips co selling French fries. Under the traditional trade mark law both these companies can have the same trade mark/trade name such as "frys". The problem arises when both apply for the registration of a domain name containing the word "frys". Here, both are legitimate claimants of this domain name but due to the element of uniqueness of domain names only one of them can be assigned the desired domain name. Which legal issue arises in this situation?
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vu it430 E-Commerce.
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vu it430 Final Term - Quiz No.7.
GM Celebes manufacturing electronic goods and FryChips co selling French fries. Under the traditional trade mark law both these companies can have the same trade mark/trade name such as "frys". The problem arises when both apply for the registration of a domain name containing the word "frys". Here, both are legitimate claimants of this domain name but due to the element of uniqueness of domain names only one of them can be assigned the desired domain name. Which legal issue arises in this situation?
Domain name conflict
Cyber squatting
Concurrent use
None of the given options
