Tag Archives: altria

Sun 21st March 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Altria Gets a Hit with Marijuana Domain Name Dispute - Tobacco company scores a hit with marijuana domains. In December I wrote about how Altria, the parent company of Philip Morris, had filed a complaint to get the domain names AltriaCannabis.com and AltriaMarijuana.com. The company won the case at World Intellectual Property Forum against Daniel Cheng of Washington, D.C., and the domain names should be transferred to Altria’s possession shortly. As I noted in the earlier article, the domain names each had web sites ... read more ...
Mon 28th December 2009
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Altria Gearing Up to Sell Marijuana? - Company files case against owner of marijuana domain names. Altria Group, the parent company of tobacco company Philip Morris USA, has filed an arbitration proceeding to get the domain names AltriaMarijuana.com and AltriaCannabis.com. Is the company getting ready for the day pot becomes legal? Perhaps, but the company is probably more concerned about the content on the web sites. Both sites invite visitors to “Fight Against the Legalization of Marijuana” and ... read more ...