GeoVantage, Inc. (Peabody, MA) has sued GeoVantage, Inc. (Jupiter, FL) and associated organizations for, surprise, trademark infringement. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff has been using GEOVANTAGE and geovantage.com for digital mapping / GPS services for over ten years and that the defendant recently starting using the same mark for the same services and also registered geovantage.net.
While most of the complaint is straightforward, it asserts, on information and belief, that defendant must have known about plaintiff’s .com registration prior to registering its own .net registration since a .com domain name “is almost always the most desirable top-level domain.” That legal assertion seems simultaneously common sense and a stretch.
GeoVantage, Inc. v. GeoVantage, Inc., et. al., 10-10638-MBB (D. Mass. Apr. 15, 2010)
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