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Booble.com - llegent - 07-18-2006 Speaking of Dispute and legal claim issues, it sparks of my memory of the old days back in 2004 where google was taking the issue toward booble.com (adult search engine). In its email to booble.com, Google claimed that :- Quote:Your use of the Domain Name and corresponding web site constitutes trademark infringement and dilution of Google's trademarks and unfair competition under federal and state laws. Further, your improper duplication of Google's trade dress on the web site will mislead consumers into believing that some association exists between Google and you, which tarnishes the goodwill and reputation of Google's services and trademarks. Your registration and use of the Domain Name is in bad faith pursuant to the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP") and is clearly designed to appropriate the goodwill associated with the famous GOOGLE mark in violation of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act ("ACPA"). In addition, you would not be able to demonstrate any rights or legitimate interests in the Domain Name because you are using it to tarnish the GOOGLE mark. Agreed that booble.com was created much later than google.com :- Google.com domain was created on: 15-Sep-1997. Booble.com domain was created on: 25-Nov-2001. But hey, is that also to say that no one can own domain like :- aooale.com, booble.com, coocle.com, doodle.com, eooele.com, foofle.com, hooahe.com, iooile.com, ,oooole.com, poople.com, qooqle.com...and so on?? Well, apparently, Booble.com is still "alive" till date! and they remain the direction as "adult search engine" that they set in the early stage. Booble.com - zach - 07-18-2006 Nice history An interesting read. I have always wondered about cases like this, and about how far their implications reach. One thing I noticed, though, is that they used to use the Google style for their homepage. Now it looks totally different. Booble.com - llegent - 07-18-2006 Thanks Zach. By the way, I managed to search back the email reply from Booble that they had sent to google (it is a long email, with solid arguements by Booble legal team! Booble even goes to the extend of citing similar domains registered):- Quote:=============================== At the end of it...I think it was either booble win or google withdraw the case. Sorry but I didn't follow thru the development closely. Well, who will expect google to be such a giant back then when they just started out?! Booble.com - zach - 07-18-2006 llegent Wrote:Moreover, Booble's web site is an adult search engine, not 'a pornographic site,' as referred to in your letter. In fact, entering the terms "porn" and "sex" in the Google search engine return 98,400,000 hits and 269,000,000 hits, respectively, while entering these same terms in the Booble adult search engine return 268 hits and 291 hits, respectively. haha that's very funny. I always knew google.com was a porn site! It's amazing how when companies grow, they all seem to become intent on filing legal cases (particularly against trade mark dillution), in even the most extreme cases. Free Speech and parody always seems to take a backseat. Al Gore wrote to ICANN once about their ByLaws, saying that it is very important that they consider the right to parody when drafting the UDRP.. I don't know what happened to that idea! Booble must have had a good legal team to write that up for them. It's very impressive. Booble.com - vicki2 - 07-19-2006 Very interesting read ..and thanks for posting it. Since I love wordplay, I have to give kudos to booble ...it's funny and to the point so to speak lol. Booble.com - triumph - 07-20-2006 That is interesting, but Google never had a leg to stand on there. No way was it close enough to be considered an infringment or potentially confusing with Google. Booble.com - vicki2 - 07-20-2006 I don't think so either, triumph. Two '0's and an 'le' on the end do not a google make. Now using a red and a yello 'o' in the type might throw up some flags. LOL. Booble.com - deelip - 08-09-2006 And what about http://www.thegoogle.info I saw that site some days ago. That have a google search box powered by google adsense. Booble.com - vicki2 - 08-10-2006 thegoogle.info seems mighty close to google to me ...whoever owns that might end up with a few problems but it will be an interesting case to follow just to see! Booble.com - Grace - 08-10-2006 Thegoogleinfo sounds like Google is being used as a key word because it's familiar to us. I can't believe they arent' sueing somebody over it's use. |