Two companies located in Massachusetts have been in competition with each other over designing, building, and selling boat stands. Recently however, that dispute spilled over into the intellectual property arena.
Originally the Mattapoisett, MA, located Kavanaugh-Brownell Boat Stands, LLC (Kavanaugh) sued the Fairhaven, MA, located Brownell Trailers, LLC (BT) over use of the ‘BROWNELL’ trademark. In that first suit Judge Young presiding over the case determined that BT could continue to sell its boat stands under the ROK trademark so long as the mark made it clear to consumers that the products for sale were boat stands. BT then adopted the above ‘ROK’ trademark which was approved by Judge Young. In conjunction with adoption of the ROK mark, BT also registered and began use of www.rokboatstands.com.
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Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted patent # 7,756,987 to Microsoft.
The parties attempted to reach a settlement agreement but this did not materialize and proceedings against Respondent, Daniyal Waseem of Quetta, Pakistan, commenced on April 21.
These cyber criminals utilize spoofed sites and other methods (including typo-squatting) to trick users into believing they are at their intended Web pages so they will enter online their personal information and the phishing program will forward that data to the cyber criminal and also forward the user to their actually intended Web-site.
Alf Temme has had to face a number of trademark-infringement and cybersquatting actions brought against him mostly in relation to work on his start-up company Domain Name Consolidation Service (DNCS). In