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Tamara Holder and Lis Wiehl discuss trademark battle between former congressman and his supporters
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By the white -- are -- time little legal pot hole.
Least -- -- camera holding in NASA has always on the hunt hello.
Good to see but.
Interesting.
Situation would -- -- -- he's sort of built his entire.
Career I guess the last few years anyway on the grassroots.
Campaigning.
And now he's finally an international trade mocked complaint against these so grassroots movements and his -- to get wrongful dot com -- -- Ron Paul dot com -- -- -- and he's saying let and you thought you stole my name I should get deserves to compensate you -- What promoting him when they can't win winning that.
-- they were promoting him they were getting no money or very little money partly -- they -- you know thousands of hours of the sweat equity into that behind this candidate.
Obviously we you know didn't go as far as he wanted to go and now he wants to drop back -- say I want those that dot com of that dot org that.
I don't think he gets there are you really don't tell me he has.
Case -- he's saying it's keys trademarked as Ron Paul and and that precedent says that that the average person when they're looking for safe Pepsi dot com or they're looking for Pepsi they're going to Google Pepsi dot com.
And so they're essentially he's saying that if you Google Ron Paul you're going to look up Ron Paul dot com who.
And he's also saying that these grassroots people have no legitimate interest in having his name.
-- he should get.
We're right tell them that they register those web sites the deal would delight if I -- do Jonathan Hunt dot com got a right to the it's like well you know you really don't I mean I tried to -- outside the my book the trident going -- and and do the same thing and I couldn't I had to do.
-- -- -- books dot com Lou we'll plug for that.
No you really you don't if authorities and so is -- -- any different because he's national figure.
-- saying that he is because he's he's given speeches and yes seven books and he's gone around the world and he's well known as Ron Paul no offense to you that you're not well known but that's what his arguments wheels could Muster let him have matter -- But for the flat I don't know I mean mediation a filed a claim.
