Legal Opinion
Coca-Cola Co. v. Purdy
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 1, 2004No. 02-2894, 03-1795, 03-1929PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
This case was brought under the Anticy-bersquatting Consumer Protection Act by the Washington Post Company and its wholly owned subsidiary Washington-post.Newsweek Interactive Company, LLC (the Post entities), the Coca-Cola Company, McDonald’s Corporation, and PepsiCo, Inc. to stop William S. Purdy 1 from appropriating Internet domain names 2 that incorporate and are confusingly similar to their trademarks and ser-vicemarks. The district court 3 granted preliminary injunctive relief enjoining defendants from registering or using certain domain names and ordering them…
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- Harrods Limited v. Sixty Internet Domain NamesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 2002
- San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic CommitteeSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
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