Legal Opinion
uBID, Inc. v. GoDaddy Group, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 29, 2010No. 09-3927PublishedCited by 322 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff uBID, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that auctions the excess inventory of manufacturers and retailers over the Internet. It brought suit in Illinois against The GoDaddy Group, Inc., which operates the well-known domain name registration site GoDaddy.com. In its complaint, uBID alleged that GoDaddy violated the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d), by intentionally registering domain names that are confusingly similar to uBID’s trademarks and domain names for the purpose of profiting from uBID’s marks and exploiting web surfers’…
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