The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Frank B. Cross, Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 9, Problem 2CT
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Case summary:A company H produced the first version of a board game and registered it with the U.S Patent and Trademark Office. The company H produced many versions of the same board game. Another company IE used the same domain name as used by the company H for a sexually explicit internet site. The company H filed for trade dilution to injunct the company IE from using the same domain name.
To Find:The result of the case if the site sold candy rather than sexually explicit materials.
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