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Microsoft lightens up on teen's Web site
Tue 20 January, 2004 20:24
TORONTO (Reuters) - Microsoft has indicated it may have overreacted to the Web site of Canadian teenager Mike Rowe who added the word "soft" to his name and registered the address mikerowesoft.com.
"We take our trademark seriously, but in this case maybe a little too seriously," Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler said.
"We appreciate that Mike Rowe is a young entrepreneur who came up with a creative domain name, so we're currently in the process of resolving this matter in a way that will be fair to him and satisfy our obligations under trademark law," Desler said
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