[HOT] Fwd: About " openstreetmap " Name Conflict

[Tyler Radford]

Thanks for passing along John. Here is some further info:

http://www.chinalawblog.com/2014/07/china-domain-name-emails-it-is-still-a-scam.html

http://www.europeandomaincentre.com/pages/news-room/domain-management-news/hey!-got-an-email-from-china-domain-name-registration-center-asian-domain-registration-service-in-china-the-department-of-registration-service-in-china-etc.#.VYmBNPlViko



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On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:43 AM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It should probably be dealt with here.
>
> Cheerio John
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: mark <mark at ipr-china.net>
> Date: 23 June 2015 at 07:27
> Subject: [HOT] About " openstreetmap " Name Conflict
> To:
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>
>  (Please forward this to your CEO or President, because this is urgent.
> Thank you.)
>
> Dear President & CEO,
>
> This email is from China Intellectual Property Office, which mainly deal
> with trademark and domain name registration internationally. We received an
> application from RFZJ Industries Ltd on June 23,2015. They want to register
> "openstreetmap" as their Trademark in China,Hong Kong,Taiwan and some
> Domain(.asia/.cn/.com.cn/.hk/.com.hk/.tw/.com.tw).
>
> We checked and found the keyword is your company's registered trademark.
> But have not registered in China,Hong Kong,Taiwan. So we inform you to
> confirm whether this registration will affect and conflict your company. If
> this registration will not affect and conflict your company, then we can
> finish registering for them as per our duty. If this registration will
> affect and conflict your company. Please contact us by telephone or email
> within 10 workdays, so we can better handle the issue.
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Mark Chen
>
>
>
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