http://www.metafilter.com/tags/onlineretailers Posts tagged with 'onlineretailers' at MetaFilter. Tue, 27 Feb 2001 18:26:16 -0800 Tue, 27 Feb 2001 18:26:16 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/6078/ <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/0102/28/bizcom/bizcom3.html">eBay takes a leaf out of eToys' book.</a> Everybody's favourite auction site is threatening legal action against EBay Pty Limited, an Australian company that’s been around for twenty years but only got online recently. eBay has the <a href="http://www.ebay.com.au">ebay.com.au</a> domain name, so EBay bought <a href="http://www.ebayaust.com">ebayaust.com</a> in late 1999 for their small business selling self-published books. <br><br>Now eBay wants EBay to stop using the name both online and <i>offline</i>, the latter of which seems highly dubious given the relative ages of the companies. <br><br>In what is becoming an increasingly global marketplace, where do we draw the line between disparate companies with similar names? tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.6078 Tue, 27 Feb 2001 18:26:16 -0800 companynames ebay etoys globalism onlineretailers trademarks Georgina