United States Fourth Circuit

To use a mark "in connection with" goods or services, defendant need not have actually sold or advertised goods or services on a web site, but need only have prevented users from obtaining or using the trademark holder's goods or services, or link to other's goods or services.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/07/2001
• Decided 08/23/2001
• Published 08/23/2001

Judges

• Before MICHAEL and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and BENSON E. LEGG, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  G. Gervaise Davis, III, Davis & Schroeder, P.C., Monterey, CA, for Appellant. Philip Jay Hirschkop, Hirschkop & Associates, P.C., Alexandria, VA, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  Eric Bakri Boustani, Davis & Schroeder, P.C., Monterey, CA;  Richard T. Rossier, Kathryn A. Kleiman, McLeod, Watkinson & Miller, Washington, DC, for Appellant.  Marianne R. Merritt, Hirschkop & Associates, P.C., Alexandria, VA, for Appellee.  Diane Cabell, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA;  Dr. Milton Mueller, Center for Science and Technology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, Amici Curiae Pro Se.