Intellectual Property
Aug. 18, 2016
Robert M. Galvin
See more on Robert M. GalvinWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Galvin won a precedent-setting case for website domain company GoDaddy Inc. against the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in a cybersquatting dispute over the Academy's trademarked names "Oscar" and "Academy Awards."
"The Academy complained that some of our domains contained strings of names like 'Oscar' and 'Academy,'" Galvin said. "Instead of going after the people who owned the domains, they went after us."
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