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Dateline: 14 May 1999 All-day Edition Read Yesterday's Edition An Aardvark Exclusive!
Telecom Seek Arrest Warrant For Use Of "Yellow" On The Web
Auckland Net entrepreneur Henk Klos today waits in his Huapai home for a knock
on the door -- it will likely be the police with a warrant for his arrest.
What heinous crime did Henk commit?
He crossed Telecom and dared to question their claim to have exclusive
rights to use the colour yellow on the Web.
Henk is the man behind the
www.yellowweb.co.nz,
a website that Telecom alleges has infringed two of their trademarks -- the colour
yellow and the phrase "yellow web pages."
In April, Telecom managed to obtain an interim injunction against Yellow Web
Ltd, effectively ruling that they had to stop the use of those alleged trade marks.
Henk's response to this injunction was to offer his web site for sale -- initially
to Telecom and then to other parties.
According to Henk, the Yellow Web site was bought by an offshore entity which now owns and
operates it -- so he claims he's no longer culpable for the ongoing alleged
trademark infringements.
According to a "notice of application for leave to issue writ of arrest and/or
writ of sequestration" issued by Telecom's lawyers on Wednesday, clearly
Telecom does not agree and they want Henk put behind bars for his misdeeds.
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16 Apr 99
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