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

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: 2) by FakeBeldin on Thursday July 02 2015, @11:07AM

    by FakeBeldin (3360) on Thursday July 02 2015, @11:07AM (#204161) Journal

    Good point, $ELIPHINO could very well be legit. In which case the judge (hopefully) sides with Kneen.

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