2020

Straightforward fact pattern. Website falsely claims that Laura Ingraham has left her job at Fox News to sell skincare products.

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My wife, who doesn’t follow sports, knows who the GREEK FREAK is, so there’s evidence for the dilution claim.

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I was fortunate to have worked on INTA’s brief in the Booking.com Supreme Court appeal. The question presented is:

Whether the addition by an online business of a generic top-level domain (“.com”) to an otherwise generic term can create a protectable trademark.

Booking.com BV sought registration of the mark BOOKING.COM for online travel services.

Plaintiff is an author and speaker. She hired defendant to create a website for her. The relationship must have soured as “Defendant convinced GoDaddy to permit her to access Plaintiff’s GoDaddy Account, where she changed the login credentials to prevent Defendant (sic) [seems to mean plaintiff] from accessing the Subject Domain Name. . . .Defendant…