Do You Know What Happened in the Ninth Circuit?

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"The fourth circuit tries to come up with a situation that will take all of these things into consideration," he says. "They avoid the simple answer that's right in front of us, and I think stems from misunderstanding what happened in the Ninth Circuit" The question is: Who was on notice when they created should the trademark owner have been on notice that a domain existed? Why should someone's property rights be dependent on sort of transitory? Right?

A recent court case does little to settle the “re-registration” question. A Court of Appeals decision last month widened the gulf between different U.S. circuits on a critical question in finding bad faith under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA): when the domain was registered. Or “re-registered”, as it were. On today’s show Ben Barlow, […]

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