Legal Opinion
In Re Specht
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 8, 2010No. 10-2823PublishedCited by 165 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
In 1999 Erich Specht started a home business, which he called Android Data Corporation. It offered website hosting services. Specht registered “Android Data” as a federal trademark for his business, which folded in 2002. Specht allowed his registration for the domain name “android-data.com” to lapse, and the corporation was dissolved under state law. Specht did not use the mark again until 2009 — when, having learned about Google’s Android operating system for mobile phones, he registered the domain name “android-data.com”, attempted to resurrect the corporation by…
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