The question comes up under the ACPA of what the Congress intended. We don't know exactly what they intended, and the courts are trying to figure that out. The fourth circuit adopted last week whether there is some sort of registration event involving a domain name where there was an outstanding mark. And you could assume that there was some sort of bad faith intent to profit.
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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