Trademark Infringement - Should People Be on Notice?

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I think these laws only work if we really look at the purpose behind them. We want to eliminate cyber squatting but also deal with this question of should people be on notice? And what happens if you sit on your rights? If I get monkey.com and no one has the trademark in a certain area, well, I have the opportunity to get that trademark. Unfortunately, that's not where the focus was for my client last week though.

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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