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Weiss Dawid Fross Zelnick & Lehrman, P.C.
633 Third Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10017-6754

Telephone: (212) 953-9090
Cable: LEHMARKS NEWYORK
TELEX: ATT 422455
Facsimile: (212) 953-10377 (212) 983-0311

March 25, 1996

Mr. David Koblas
Homepages, Inc.
257 Castro St. Suite 219
Mount View, CA 94041

Re: legowww.homepages.com/

Dear Mr. Koblas

We are outside trademark counsel to Interlego, A.G., owner of the LEGO trademark. We are writing to you concerning your use of the server name legoww, and the other outstanding items raised in Mr. Arakas' letter of September 12, 1995. As you know, Mr. Arakas has written you twice since that letter in order to resolve their server name problem, but you have never gotten back to him.

Our client has now asked us to contact you directly. As discussed below, we are hoping to avoid the need to file a lawsuit, which unfortunately you have be making necessary by your refusal to withdraw your use of the LEGO trademark as a server name.

As I am sure you know, LEGO is among the most famous trademarks in the world. It is a name standing for excellence, consistency and reliability. It has been used for many, man years by our client as its stamp or signature to designate those products and services which come only from, or are under the control of the LEGO group of companies.

This is why your use of the LEGO mark as a server name causes us such concern. We are convinced that internet users, whether casual or experienced, upon seeing the legowww.homepages.com name, are likely to believe that to be a worldwide website set up on client's behalf, maintained for and pursuant to our client specifications. They will expect the information accurate and current and will assume that whatever information is being provided and whatever statements are bing made come from or have our client's approval. In our opinion, your use of a disclaimer will not effectively alter these expectations and assumptions.

Your use of client's trademark is this way not only disserves our client, who is deprived of its right to control the good and services provided under its mark, but also disserves the public who is being confused and misled about he source of the information they are receiving. This is the very harm that the trademark laws were designed to prevent.

Accordingly, the action of your company make it liable to our client for trademark infringement and unfair competition. Putting aside the issue of monetary recover, our client is entitled to a court ordered injunction against your company should you pursue in the use of this mark. We thus again, and regrettably for the last time, request that you voluntarily undertake to discontinue this use and that you advise us of this undertaking in writing.

We trust that you will not force use to litigation, but if you do we will seek as full a recovery of costs and our legal fees as possible given that, under all the circumstances, you should not be requiring us to incur these expenses.

I look forward to hearing from you. If we do not hear back by the end of the month we will then proceed to take whatever action we deem necessary, without any further notice to you. We hope you do not make this necessary.

Very truly yours,
signed
Carol F. Simkin.

CFS:saf

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