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Stayart v. Yahoo! Inc., 2010 WL 3785147 (7th Cir. Sept. 30, 2010)

  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 29 2010

Plaintiff, an animal-rights activist, searched for her name on defendants' Internet search engines and discovered that her name was listed in search results linked to sexual-dysfunction drugs and pornographic websites

Super-Krete Int’l, Inc. v. Sadleir, 2010 WL 1688533 (C.D. Cal. Apr. 22, 2010)

  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 30 2010

Plaintiff sued defendants, a direct competitor in the concreteresurfacing business and its president, for trademark infringement, dilution, and cybersquatting based on defendants' registration and use of a domain name consisting of plaintiff's trademark to direct Internet users to defendants' own website marketing competing products

College Network, Inc. v. Moore Educ. Publishers, Inc., 2010 WL 1923763 (5th Cir. May 12, 2010)

  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 24 2010

Plaintiff sued defendant, a competitor in the study-guide market for nursing students, for trademark infringement based on defendant's purchase of "THE COLLEGE NETWORK" as a search-engine keyword to trigger sponsored-link advertising for its competing products

Volvo Trademark Holding AB v. volvospares.com, 2010 WL 1404175 (E.D. Va. Apr. 1, 2010)

  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 30 2010

After Volvo lost a UDRP case it brought against the domain name volvospares.com used for a website selling new and used parts in direct competition with Volvo, it filed this in rem action

Webadviso v. Bank of Am. Corp

  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 26 2010

The district court dismisses plaintiff’s request for a declaratory judgment that his use of the domain names bofaml.com and mlbofa.com, registered on the day that defendant Bank of America’s (also known as “B OF A”) acquisition of Merrill Lynch (also known as “ML”) was announced, did not violate the defendants’ rights and instead found that he registered and used the names with a bad-faith intent to profit from the B OF A and ML trademarks

Transamerica Corp. v. Moniker Online Servs., LLC

  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 21 2010

Plaintiff sued defendants, including several domain name registrars, for allowing customers to anonymously register domain names containing its TRANSAMERICA mark through defendants’ “privacy service” and to monetize them through associated pay-per-click websites advertising competing services

St. Luke’s Cataract & Laser Inst, PA v Sanderson

  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 24 2009

The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed the district court’s ruling that statutory damages awarded for cybersquatting under the ACPA are duplicative of actual damages awarded for infringement under the Lanham Act

S. Grouts & Mortars, Inc v. 3M Co

  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 24 2009

The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court’s ruling that the renewal and continued ownership and non-use of a domain name containing a competitor’s trademark was not cybersquatting or unfair competition

Has the law of fair use caught up with keyword litigation?

  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 7 2009

Is using someone else's trademark in search-engine advertisingeither as part of the keyword that triggers the ad or the ad itselfinfringement?

Southern Co. v. Dauben, Inc.

  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 22 2009

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a preliminary injunction granted by the Northern District of Texas against defendant’s use of confusingly similar domain names for a pay-per-click website