United States Second Circuit

Defendant's "pop up" advertisements, which appear on computer screens contemporaneously with the appearance of plaintiff's internet website, do not infringe upon plaintiff's trademark.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/05/2004
• Decided 06/27/2005
• Published 06/27/2005

Judges

• JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Chief Judge., Before:  WALKER, Chief Judge, and STRAUB, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark A. Lemley, Keker & Van Nest, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for amicus curiae Google Inc. urging reversal of the district court., Professor Eric Goldman, Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, WI;  Cindy Cohn, Fred von Lohmann, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA, for amicus curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation urging reversal of the district court.


• For Appellees:
  
• Terence P. Ross, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P. (Rachel A. Clark, Prasanth R. Akkapeddi, and Amy E. Barrier, on the brief), Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellee 1-800 Contacts, Inc., Celia Goldwag Barenholtz, Kronish, Lieb, Weiner & Hellman (Michael D. Paley, Jason M. Koral, and Ian Ross Shapiro, on the brief), New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant WhenU.Com, Inc., Jeffrey E. Ostrow, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP (Patrick E. King and Theodore J. McEvoy, on the brief), New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Vision Direct, Inc., Thomas C. Morrison, Christine H. Miller, Eden Doniger, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP (Peter J. Brann, Kevin Beal, Brann & Isaacson, LLP;  Daniel G. Clodfelter, Thomas E. Graham, Moore & Van Allen, PLLC;  Richard R. Hays, David J. Stewart, Alston & Bird, LLP;  Jennifer G. Altman, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP, of counsel), New York, NY, for amici curiae The Hertz Corporation, L.L. Bean, Inc., Lending Tree, Inc., Six Continents Hotels, Inc., Inter-Continental Hotels Corporation, and TigerDirect, Inc. in support of Plaintiff-Appellee 1-800 Contacts, Inc.