A cybersquatter has been ordered to pay $1.2 million in damages for deliberately using a confusingly similar domain name to steal a competitor’s business.
The US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas granted insurance company Neutron Depot’s motion for default judgement on 21 January, after the accused defendant failed to respond to the charges levelled at it.
Neutron accused Insurance Depot Marketing of trademark infringement and violating the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act in April 2015.
Insurance Depot Marketing had launched its own website and a competing insurance service through InsuranceDepotAmerica.com, despite Neutron owning a trademark to ‘Insurance Depot’.
Insurance Depot Marketing intended to “drive internet traffic to one or more websites owned by the fellow defendant for profit and commercial gain”, according to court documents.
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Beware of trademark infringement!
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The US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas granted insurance company Neutron Depot’s motion for default judgement on 21 January, after the accused defendant failed to respond to the charges levelled at it.
Neutron accused Insurance Depot Marketing of trademark infringement and violating the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act in April 2015.
Insurance Depot Marketing had launched its own website and a competing insurance service through InsuranceDepotAmerica.com, despite Neutron owning a trademark to ‘Insurance Depot’.
Insurance Depot Marketing intended to “drive internet traffic to one or more websites owned by the fellow defendant for profit and commercial gain”, according to court documents.
Source
Beware of trademark infringement!
Have you ever come across or have been involved in any such case ever where the accused was asked to pay a huge sum of money?? Share if you may...