Green Products Co. v. Independence Corn By-Products Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that use of plaintiff’s trademark as defendant’s domain name is likely to cause confusion as to who owns Internet site much like if store had competitor’s name on it
• stating deceptive use of another’s trademark in domain name to lure customers away from competitor is kind of consumer confusion
• finding Internet users do not undergo a highly sophisticated analysis when searching for domain names
• “In essence, ICBP is capitalizing on the strong similarity between Green Products’ trademark and ICBP’s domain name to lure customers onto its web page.”
• registration of website domain name confusingly similar to competitor’s trademarked name

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).