Tag Archives: AOL

Thu 14th October 2010
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AOL Owns Patch.com, But Can’t Win wwwPatch.com UDRP - AOL’s lawyers didn’t provide enough evidence of common law rights. AOL owns the web site Patch.com, yet it has failed to obtain the typo wwwPatch.com through a National Arbitration Forum proceeding. How is this possible? It seems that AOL’s lawyers may have taken this case for granted and not supplied enough evidence. The panel found that wwwPatch.com is confusingly similar to AOL’s PATCH mark, and that the respondent doesn’t have any rights or legitimate ... read more ...
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 ...
Fri 11th September 2009
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Arbitrator Has Harsh Words for AOL in Domain Dispute - AOL loses domain dispute; arbitrator condemns company and its lawyer. AOL, already known for playing fast an loose with trademarks, has lost a domain dispute for four domains including AutoBlogReviews.com. National Arbitration Forum panelist Paul M. DeCicco found that AOL failed to prove secondary meaning and rights to the term AUTOBLOG. AOL acquired AutoBlog.com in its Weblogs acquisition. DeCicco displayed a common sense approach to proving that a company has ... read more ...
Tue 18th August 2009
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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 ...