Perspective
Jan. 4, 2014
Innocent bystanders of cybersquatting
The 9th Circuit recently addressed wether a domain name registrar could be held liable for cybersquatting. By Teri H.P. Nguyen
Addressing for the first time the issue of whether the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), which added two cybersquatting causes of action to the Lanham Act, provides for secondary liability, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that it did not. Engaging in traditional statutory interpretation, the court concluded that the ACPA did not create a cause of action for contributory cybersquatting which would have extended l...
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