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MGM Resorts Files Trademark Infringement Suit Over Domain Names
As first reported by Vegas Inc. on Friday, MGM Resorts International has filed suit against four individuals and two companies for trademark infringement. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, claims that each of the defendants registered poker-related websites between 2002 and 2005 that used names of MGM properties.
The lawsuit lists the following sites linked by name with MGM casinos: bellagioonlinepoker.com, circuscircuspoker.com, excaliburpoker.com, luxorpoker.com, mandalaybayonlinepoker.com, mgmpoker.com and ariapoker.com.
The lawsuit charges that each of...
Domain name registration weasels are a fact of life. They count on the cost of litigation being high enough that effectively they can sell the domain names for exorbitant amounts. With large corporations with legal firms on retainer, they run the risk of a CEO with enough integrity to defend the brand names by going after them, which is what has happened. A trademark infringement suit is serious business with serious penalties. Hats off to MGM for defending its turf on the internet.
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12-03-2011 08:29
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