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Intellectual Property

Jun. 19, 2001

Borderline Personality

Two recent cases favoring the owners of e-cards.com and cars.com suggest the possibility that owners of borderline-generic domain names might be able to employ trademark or unfair-competition theories to stop use of similar borderline-generic domain names.

By R.J. Heher
         
        Two recent cases favoring the owners of e-cards.com and cars.com suggest the possibility that owners of borderline-generic domain names might be able to employ trademark or unfair-competition theories to stop use of similar borderline-generic domain names. E-Cards v. ECards.com Inc., C-99-372 (N.D. Cal., decided May 10, 2000); Classified Ven...

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