United States Ninth Circuit

In an appeal from a judgment of the district court granting summary judgment to plaintiff on its Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) and Lanham Act claims, judgment is: 1) affirmed where the court correctly determined that defendants acted in bad faith in violation of the ACPA and that defendant's use of the domain name gopets.com violated the Lanham Act; but 2) reversed where the court incorrectly held that defendants' re-registration of domain name violated the ACPA, as the re-registration of a currently registered domain name is not a "registration" within the meaning of the ACPA.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/22/2011
• Published 09/22/2011

Judges

• FLETCHER

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael Allen Firestein, Edward Hise