Perfumebay.com Loses Trademark Infringement Case
File this one under wierd. Perfumebay.com have lost a court case with a giant website after they succesfully argued that “people would click on Perfumebay.com instead of their site, thus causing a loss of revenue.”
The website who beat perfumebay.com in court? eBay.
From TG Daily:
[The owner, Jacquelyn] Tran, admitted that she sometimes would capitalize the b in perfumeBay much in the same way the b in eBay is capitalized. Tran told the court she did this because, “it was a common thing she saw online where companies would capitalize the first letter of the first word if they had separate words.”
We Say: We find this story preposterous. There’s now a law against capitalising letters and having company names sneakily hidden within other company names. I’m sure nobody in their right mind would get confused. Now I’m off to visit tesconamy.com!
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Parfums Raffy - Online Perfume, cologne, fragrance store says:
Preposterous is the understatement of the century! Does this mean that perfumebay.us or perfumebay.gov would be open to lawsuits as well?!?!?
Monday, 2 June 2008 @ 9:17pm