"Domain Name" tagged Cases and Lawsuits

CaseCase FiledLast Document
Weather Underground, Incorporated v. Navigation Catalyst Systems, Incorporated et alFebruary 27, 2009November 13, 2009
Plaintiff The Weather Underground, Inc. alleges Defendants Navigation Catalyst Systems Inc., Basic Fusion Inc., Connexus Corporation, and Firstlook Inc. used an automated process to register and use domain names that are confusingly similar to famous or distinctive trademarks owned by the Plaintiff.
Vulcan Golf, LLC v. Google Inc. et alJune 15, 2007July 30, 2009
Plaintiff sued Google and several "parked domain" companies for trademark infringement over the use of AdSense for Domains on websites with allegedly infringing domain names.
Verizon California Inc. et al v. Navigation Catalyst Systems, Inc. et al.April 15, 2008November 4, 2008
Plaintiffs Verizon California Inc., Verizon Trademark Services LLC and Verizon Licensing Company alleged that Defendants Navigation Catalyst Systems Inc. and Basic Fusion Inc. have used an automated process to register and use over three million domain names, many of which are confusingly similar to famous or distinctive trademarks owned by others.
Pacific Law Center et al v. Saadat-NejadMarch 13, 2007September 2, 2008
Plaintiffs Pacific Law Center and Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith, LLP alleged that Defendant Shahrokh Saadat-Nejad, a former client, engaged in trademark infringement, cybersquatting and unfair competition by registering and using domain names confusingly similar to those of the Plaintiffs to disparage them.
Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation v. YouTube, Inc.October 30, 2006November 9, 2007
Plaintiff Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation operates a website at utube.com. Plaintiff alleges that as a result of confusion in the minds of consumers, the spillover of nuisance traffic to plaintiff's website has destroyed the value of plaintiff's trademark and internet property, repeatedly caused the shut down of plaintiff's website, increased plaintiff's internet costs and damaged the plaintiff's good reputation.
Microsoft Corporation v. Kovyrin et alSeptember 10, 2007November 7, 2007
Plaintiff Microsoft Corporation alleges that defendants have registered numerous Internet domain names that contain or consist of Microsoft's marks and/or intentional misspellings of Microsoft's marks.
Mattel, Inc. v. Global China Networks, LLC. et alAugust 21, 2007October 10, 2007
Defendants operate a pornographic web site at www.chinabarbie.com. Plaintiff owns the BARBIE trademark and alleges that chinabarbie infringes and is confusingly similar and dilutive of the BARBIE trademark.
Alfenas v. Pantera Partnership et alAugust 2, 2007October 2, 2007
Plaintiff Leif Alfenas alleges that defendant Pantera Partnership acquiesced to his publication of a non-commercial fan appreciation website at Pantera.com and that defendant had abandoned its rights to the trademark PANTERA.
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences v. Ampas.comApril 13, 2007September 5, 2007
Plaintiff Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences seeks an order transferring the domain name ampas.com to the plaintiff or deleting the registration of the domain name ampas.com
Pantera Partnership v. AlfenasAugust 3, 2007August 3, 2007
Plaintiff Pantera Partnership alleged that defendant Leif Alfenas operated, maintained and registered the pantera.com website with plaintiff's consent as an independent contractor. Plaintiff further alleged that it subsequently determined that it was in its best interest to regain control of its official website and demanded that defendant deliver pantera.com to plaintiff.
Video Professor, Inc. v. MalakerApril 4, 2007June 7, 2007
Plaintiff Video Professor, Inc. alleged that defendant registered videoprofessor.ca, which is confusingly similar to the VIDEO PROFESSOR trademark.
SEX.COM, INCORPORATED v. DOMAIN NAME ACQUISITION GROUP, LLC et alSeptember 26, 2005October 25, 2005
Plaintiff Sex.com sued defendants Domain Name Acquisition Group, LLC, Andrew Miller, Peter Hubshman and Deal Jam, LLC over the purchase of the domain name "Sex.com." Plaintiff alleges that defendants refused to return plaintiff's deposit even though defendants refused to conclude the intended transaction.
Ideaflood, Inc. v. Google, Inc.October 4, 2004March 21, 2005
Plaintiff Ideaflood, Inc. sued defendant Google, Inc. and alleged that Google's blogging service infringed U.S. Patent No. 6,687,746 B1 entitled "System apparatus and method for hosting and assigning domain names on a wide area network." Plaintiff alleged that the patent covers a service for hosting domains and assigning domain names to users, were the domain name is defined, in part, by the user.
Thomson Canada Limited et al v. Thomson-Reuters.ComMay 13, 2008 
Plaintiffs Thomson Canada Limited and Reuters Limited filed an in rem action against the Internet domain name thomson-reuters.com under the federal Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, federal trademark infringment law, federal anti-dilution law and federal unfair competition law.