After a three-year battle, a federal judge has ruled that a Korean company's registration of the domain name bizbank.com was done in bad faith and that it must immediately transfer the site name to Pennsylvania Business Bank, which purchased the rights to the trademark BizBank. In his opinion in Pennsylvania Business Bank v. Biz Bank Corp., Senior U.S. District Judge Jan E. DuBois found that the Korean company's registration of the domain name violated the Lanham Act and the Anticybersquatting and Consumer Protection Act.
According to the ruling, the co-defendant (the owner of the Korean company) was acting pro se and his command of the English language was "limited."
[The Legal Intelligencer, spotted via GigaLaw]
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