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18 U.S.C. 2320 (criminal enforcement)
15 U.S.C. §§ 1051 - 1127.

Caselaw

See ACPA Reference for ACPA caselaw

Appellate Cases

District Court

  • Ford Motor Co. v. 2600 Enterprises, 177 F. Supp. 2d 661 - Dist. Court, ED Michigan 2001
  • Strick Corp. v. Strickland, 162 F. Supp.2d 372 (E.D. Pa. 2001)
  • Parisi v. Netlearning, 139 F. Supp.2d 745 (E.D. Va. 2001) (review of UDRP decision is de novo)
  • Ford Motor Co. v. Lapertosa, 126 F. Supp.2d 463 (ED Mich 2000).
  • Zippo Manufacturing Company v. Zippo Dot Com, Inc., 952 F. Supp. 1119 (W.D. Pa. 1997)  "This is an Internet domain name dispute. At this stage of the controversy, we must decide the Constitutionally permissible reach of Pennsylvania's Long Arm Statute, 42 Pa.C.S.A. §5322, through cyberspace. Plaintiff Zippo Manufacturing Corporation ("Manufacturing") has filed a five count complaint against Zippo Dot Com, Inc. ("Dot Com") alleging trademark dilution, infringement, and false designation under the Federal Trademark Act, 15 U.S.C. §§1051- 1127. In addition, the Complaint alleges causes of action based on state law trademark dilution under 54 Pa.C.S.A. §1124, and seeks equitable accounting and imposition of a constructive trust. Dot Com has moved to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction and improper venue pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(2) and (3) or, in the alternative, to transfer the case pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1406(a). For the reasons set forth below, Defendant's motion is denied."
  • Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. v. Bucci, No. 97 Civ. 0629 (SDNY March 24, 1997). Court held that defendant's registration of "plannedparenthood.com," with which he created an anti-abortion website, constituted trademark infringement. The court concluded that defendant's action was commercial in that defendant promoted a book on the website, the website was a part of a greater fundraising effort, and, significantly, defendant's actions were designed to harm plaintiff commercially (in other words, it is not simply the affirmative commercial action of defendant - a cause of action could be based simply on detracting from the commercial action of plaintiff).
  • Hasbro, Inc. v. Clue Computing, Inc., 1999 WL 711429 (Sept. 2, 1999)
  • eBay v. JoeBay.org Stanford Cyberlaw
  • ACPA Caselaw

    Search Engine Keyword Cases

    Pop Up Ad Cases

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    Other Trademark Cases

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    Papers

  • John Bagby, Turmoil in dns Governance and its Merger into Trademark Law, TPRC 10/2/2004
  • Stacey L. Dogan & Mark A. Lemley, Trademarks and Consumer Search Costs on the Internet, TPRC 2004
  • Thomas Lee, Dan Hunter, Dan Orr , Cohesion and Coherence in the UDRP, TPRC 9/13/03
  • Findlaw Article on DNS and Trademarks
  • Kristen M. Beystehner, See Ya Later, Gator: Assessing whether Placing Pop-Up Advertisements on Another Company’s Website Violates Trademark Law, 11 J. Intell. Prop. L. 87 (2003)
  • Trademark Protection in Internet Domain Names by Bill Hinnant and Jeff Meek
  • Milton Mueller, Success by Default: A new profile of domain name trademark disputes under ICANN’s UDRP,” Syracuse: The Convergence Center, 2002.
  • The Modern Lanham Act and the Death of Common Sense, 108 YALE L.J. 1687 (1999)
  • Milton Mueller, Trademarks and Domain Names: Property Rights and Institutional Evolution in Cyberspace (1998).
  • Mikki Barry, Is the InterNIC's Dispute Policy Unconstitutional (Aug 1997).
  • David J. Loundy, A Primer on Trademark Law and Internet Addresses, 15 John Marshall J. of Computer and Info. Law 465  (1997)
  • David W. Maher. Trademark Law on the Internet--Will It Scale?  The Challenge to Develop International Trademark Law, 16 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 3 (1997)
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