Professor William Cornish disagreed with his WIPO colleagues in
a dispute over the names scholasticnetworks.com and
schoolasticnetworks.com. The first of these names was registered in
1998 by Tonya Parker-Jones of California at a time when she had
been running a business for three years which deals with
recruitment for higher educational institutions.
Legal action was taken by Scholastic Inc. of New York, a
long-established educational publisher which owns several trade
marks involving the words
dissenting opinion
