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