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Internet Specialties West, Inc.

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Trademark Law

Internet Specialties v. Milon-DiGiorgio: Raising the Standard for a Laches Defense in Trademark Cases
In Internet Specialties West v. Milon-DiGiorgio Enterprises, Inc., 559 F.3d 985 (9thCir. 2009), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the district court's grant of an injunction prohibiting the use of a registered domain name and mark that was determined to be confusingly similar to a pre-registered…
Posted:
07/9/2009
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Ninth Circuit’s Ruling Favors Internet Specialties over its Domain Name Dispute with Milon-Digiorgio Enterprises
By way of background, Internet Specialties and MDE are both internet service providers offering substantially similar services, including internet access, e-mail, and webhosting. Internet Specialties uses the domain name “ISWest. com”, which it registered in May of 1996. MDE uses the domain name “ISPWest.com”, which it registered in July of…
Date of ruling:
03/17/2009