If you spent years branding your name without filing for a trademark, you can still protect your brand with a federal injunction under the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (“ACPA”), according to New York attorney Susan Chana Lask.
She filed a federal complaint using the Anti-Cybersquatting law and won a permanent injunction to protect her brand after someone hijacked her name and registered it to a dot com using an anonymous domain registrar called NameCheap. They also parked the domain with her name on a pay for click page and had her name up for auction.
“The injunction I obtained established that my name is my common law trademark and directed NameCheap to transfer to me the domain they registered using my name. It also prohibits anyone from infringing on my name again,” she said. Ms. Lask has written a helpful, detailed blog post with what you need to know to do the same.
Read it at: Protect Your Online Brand With An Anti-Cybersquatting Federal Injunction, Without Registering a Trademark.