Tag Archives: ad.com

Wed 23rd June 2010
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AOL Ad.com Trademark Claim Refused as Generic - Trademark examiner refuses Ad.com trademark again. AOL’s continued battle to trademark a domain name it doesn’t even own has hit another roadblock. On June 21, a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office examiner refused the trademark for Ad.com on the grounds that it’s generic. The USPTO previously refused the mark because Ad.com was merely descriptive of AOL’s services. In response, AOL amended the application to add a claim of acquired distinctiveness. In refusing ... read more ...
Mon 19th October 2009
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Advertise.com Scores First Victory in Lawsuit with AOL - Judge forces AOL to change venue. Advertise.com 1, AOL 0. Online advertising company Advertise.com has scored its first victory in its legal battles with AOL: a judge has ruled against AOL’s favored jurisdiction of the Eastern District Court of Virginia. AOL was forced to refile the case in California Central District Court, where Advertise.com is based. Both companies sued each other back in August, after AOL blamed Advertise.com of trademark infringement of AOL’s ... read more ...
Mon 28th September 2009
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AdMedia.com: Another Play on Ad.com? - The Ad.com saga gets more interesting. Sedo has completed the sale of AdMedia.com for $50,000. This is a curious sale because of what is now up at AdMedia.com: Zoom in on a couple key elements, including the logo and copyright notice: It sure looks like whomever has created this basic web site at AdMedia.com is trying to make a play on Ad.com, the disputed trademark that has caused some million dollar heartache. There’s very little information about AdMedia.com ... read more ...
Tue 18th August 2009
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Ad.com Sale Falls Through, Lawsuit Filed - Seller files suit after $1.4M deal falls through. Ad.com owner Marcos Guillen has filed a lawsuit against Directi and Skenzo for backing out of its auction purchase of Ad.com. The sale caught mainstream attention when Skenzo bought the domain at Moniker’s TRAFFIC auction in Silicon Valley this past April for $1.4M. But immediately after the sale, issues started popping up. The exact circumstances leading to the failed purchase are not clear, although they are apparently ... read more ...
 
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AOL Sues Advertise.com for Trademark Infringement - AOL stretches its trademarks beyond belief. Apparently AOL thinks it owns every domain name that is some variation of “Advertising”. The company just filed a lawsuit against Advertise.com. Advertise.com was formerly known as ABCsearch.com until it bought the domain name Advertise.com for an undisclosed price earlier his year. The lawsuit claims: …Advertise.com recently commenced use of the virtually identical and confusingly similar designation Advertise.com ... read more ...
 
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Oversee.net Sues Skenzo, Oversee and Guillen Explain Their Sides - I don’t see this as a trademark issue. AOL’s claim of a trademark in a domain name I have owned since 1997, and I’ve been using it before for pay links and advertising, years before AOL claims of first use: example 1 example 2 AOL filed their trademark application after I agreed to list the domain name with Moniker for auction in September 2008. The ad.com auction was announced by Moniker on September 5, 2008… Then, AOL rushed to file their trademark application on September 24, 2008, ... read more ...