The Fight Over Nissan.com
from the big-guy-vs.-little-guy-or-something-more? dept
I've seen articles about this case in the past, so I'm not really sure what's new here, but the Associated Press has an article talking about the lawsuit over Nissan.com. It's currently owned by an entrepreneur named Uzi Nissan, who has owned it since 1994 and used it for his computer consulting business, Nissan Computer Corp. It would seem clear that he has a legitimate claim to the name - and he wasn't using it for cybersquatting. The problem is that at some point he also put up links to car buying sites. The other question is whether or not Nissan waited too long to make their claim. They only got upset in 1999, but courts have said that's okay, because they didn't realize how important the internet was before that. Nissan, the entrepreneur claims this is simply an example of how a big company thinks it has the automatic right to walk all over a small company.
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Uzi should keep the name
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