<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><a href="http://www.trademarksandbrandsonline.com/news/new-york-company-sues-man-over-16-year-old-domain-4416">http://www.trademarksandbrandsonline.com/news/new-york-company-sues-man-over-16-year-old-domain-4416</a><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:25.6000003814697px">New York-based company Office Space Solutions has sued domain name reseller Jason Kneen in an attempt to secure the domain <a href="http://workbetter.com">workbetter.com</a>, registered 16 years before it started using the term.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:25.6000003814697px">Kneen registered the domain in 1999 but Office Space’s trademark filing on the US Patent and Trademark Office’s website says the company did not start using the ‘Work Better’ term in commerce until February 11 this year—four days after Kneen renewed the domain name.<span style="line-height:1.6em"> </span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:25.6000003814697px">In May this year, the company received a trademark for the term ‘Work Better’ in class 35, which covers advertising and business services. It had applied for the mark in April 2014.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:25.6000003814697px">Office Space Solutions sought injunctive relief for alleged acts of cybersquatting at the US District Court for the Southern District of New York last Wednesday, June 24.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:25.6000003814697px">The company accused Kneen of trying to force the company to spend “significant sums” to buy the <a href="http://workbetter.com">workbetter.com</a> domain name.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:25.6000003814697px">“On May 15, 2014, the defendant attempted to sell <a href="http://workbetter.com">workbetter.com</a> to the plaintiff for a figure that he stated would be a high price,” the company said in its complaint.<span style="line-height:1.6em"> </span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:25.6000003814697px">But Kneen told <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">TBO</em> that Office Space approached him to buy the domain name and had offered him $500, which he refused.<span style="line-height:1.6em"> </span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:25.6000003814697px">He added that he has not been served any official papers related to the suit.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:25.6000003814697px">Office Space added in its complaint: “The defendant is not using <a href="http://workbetter.com">workbetter.com</a>. He is simply holding the domain name with a bad-faith intent to profit from the ‘Work Better’ service mark.”</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:25.6000003814697px">The company argued that Kneen is violating the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and that his actions have caused, and will continue to cause, irreparable injury to the company.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:25.6000003814697px">It has asked for declaratory judgment that Kneen has engaged in cybersquatting and for an order allowing the transfer of the <a href="http://workbetter.com">workbetter.com</a> domain name to it.</p></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">---------------------------------------------------------------<br><span>Joly MacFie  <span id="gc-number-0" class="" title="Call with Google Voice">218 565 9365</span> Skype:punkcast</span><br>WWWhatsup NYC - <a href="http://wwwhatsup.com" target="_blank">http://wwwhatsup.com</a><br> <a href="http://pinstand.com" target="_blank">http://pinstand.com</a> - <a href="http://punkcast.com" target="_blank">http://punkcast.com</a><br> VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - <a href="http://isoc-ny.org" target="_blank">http://isoc-ny.org</a><br>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>-</di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