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Lawsuit Filed Over Domain Name Registered 16 Years Before Plaintiff’s Use

posted by janrinok on Wednesday July 01 2015, @03:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the lawsuit-that-should-'workbetter' dept.

HughPickens.com writes:

Cybersquatting is registering, selling or using a domain name with the intent of profiting from the goodwill of someone else's trademark. It generally refers to the practice of buying up domain names that use the names of existing businesses with the intent to sell the names for a profit to those businesses. Now Andrew Allmann writes at Domain Name Wire that New York company Office Space Solutions, Inc. has filed a cybersquatting lawsuit against Jason Kneen over the domain name WorkBetter.com that Kneen registered in 1999 although Office Space Solutions didn't use the term "Work Better" in commerce until 2015.

"Workbetter.com is virtually identical to, and/or confusingly similar to the WORK BETTER Service Mark, which was distinctive at the time that the Defendant renewed and/or updated the registration of workbetter.com," says the lawsuit. But according to an Office Space Solutions' filing with the USPTO, it didn't use the term "Work Better" in commerce until 2015. Office Space Solutions is making the argument that the domain name was renewed in bad faith. According to Kneen, Office Space previously tried to purchase the domain name from him and after it failed to acquire the domain name, is now trying to take it via a lawsuit.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Kharnynb on Wednesday July 01 2015, @10:14AM

    by Kharnynb (5468) on Wednesday July 01 2015, @10:14AM (#203697)

    It's 2 dictionary words, put together in a rather common way...

    The guy owns the domain and they want it, but he doesn't want to sell (for whatever they offered anyway)

    So now they want to use the courts to get their way?

    sounds like "office space solutions" are a bunch of babies that threw their toys out of the pram when they didn't get their way...

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  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Friday July 03 2015, @12:54AM

    by anubi (2828) on Friday July 03 2015, @12:54AM (#204486) Journal

    I think this is more like gold. You have absolutely no use for the stuff. But you have faith someone else wants it and will pay you for it. You do not have to sell it, and are free to bid the price up as much as the market will pay.

    Its called "capitalism".

    And it happens everywhere.. for lots of examples of the same thing, look at the "collectibles" markets... now how much is that 1928D ( pulled out of ass ) penny actually worth?

    If the guy wants to play games, and you don't want to put up with it... well he beat you to the name... so go find another. And he's left with with paying for the registration fees.
     

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