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Under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d), a defendant is liable for cybersquatting if it registers, traffics in, or uses a domain name that is confusingly similar to a third party’s trademark with “bad faith intent to profit from that mark.” A successful claim under the ACPA requires that three elements be […]
It is a lot easier to steal a laptop than it is to hack into a corporate database. The Internet erupts every time a hacker compromises data of millions of customers, but it remains silent when a laptop containing data of thousands of employees is stolen. However, that is not the case when an athletic […]
The following article was written by Benjamin Haynes, Esq. Cybersquatting is the registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with the bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter typically offers to sell a domain to a person or company who owns a trademark contained within the […]