Thousands of individuals have been the victims of "cybersquatters" who register Internet domain names that include another's name and then demand a considerable sum of money in exchange for the domain name. The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act provides those victimized individuals with an important remedy, even if their name is not a trademark. The recent case Schmidheiny v. Weber, 319 F.3d 581 (3d Cir. 2003) greatly clarified this useful tool for combating these "cybersquatters.
Dorsey IP Update: Getting Personal: Cybersquatting of Personal Names
May 2003
