Verizon Wins $33.2M from CyberSquatters Articles / CyberLaw Posted by admin on Jan 01, 2009 - 05:43 AM On Dec. 26, 2008, United States District Judge Jeremy D. Fogel in San Jose, CA, issued a default judgment of $33.2M for Verizon Communications in its suit based on claims of trademark infringement, illegal cybersquatting, and registering knockoff names which intentionally confused users as to the source of its products and services, against an Icann accredited registrar known as OnlineNic. In addition to the monetary award, Judge Fogel froze OnlineNic's assets and ordered the transfer to Verizon of all identical or conmfusingly similar domains, including, myverizonwireless.com, iphoneverizonplans.com and verizon-cellular.com. This article is from CyberLaw Info (tm): CyberLaw, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property Law & Litigation   http://www.cyberlaw.info/ The URL for this story is:   http://www.cyberlaw.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=106