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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (7277)	2/11/2005 11:16:02 PM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12465

Read through the CNN motion. Good response but there's another way to tackle the issue: "Wolf Blitzer" is just some dude's name like "Jeff Mitchell". That's not a trademark, it's a birth certificate. And 'Jeffff mmMitchell' is neither of the two, just a screen name. How can you "fail to protect" something that isn't what Plaintiff alleges it is? Somewhere, you know, in a bar in Ottumwa Iowa, some guy named 'Buford', mischievioulsly using the name 'Jeffff mmMitchell' is gonna beat the crap out of one of those "crippled" panhandlers who can automagically do a 4.1 40-yard sprint if the vice squad shows up. And you are gonna get sued for failing to protect your birth certificate from an alias that slightly resembles yours. <g>

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (7277)	2/11/2005 11:43:34 PM
From: Kevin Podsiadlik	Respond to of 12465

This makes for a nice summary: "Reduced to its essence, Plaintiffs seek to hold the Media Defendants liable for statements Plaintiffs know the Media Defendants did not make and Plaintiffs know were not made by individuals acting within the Media Defendants' control. Plaintiffs' only theory is the the Media Defendants should have used some sort of political or business influence to induce third party, Lycos, to silence yet another third party, the author or authors of the allegedly offending statements." Notable is the subtle implication of the term "political or business influence", that CNN does not appear to consider legal action against Lycos or the author to be an option.