Rescuecom Corp. v. Google Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Google’s sale of trademarks for use as search keywords constitutes use in commerce
• holding that complaint regarding Google’s AdWord’s recommendation of plaintiff’s trademark to plaintiff’s competitors “adequately plead[ed] a use in commerce” under the Lanham Act
• holding that Google’s placement of an advertisement in a search result constituted a use in commerce
• holding that allegations establishing display, offer and sale of plaintiffs trademark by Google to advertisers established a “use in commerce” under the Lanham Act sufficient to survive a motion to dismiss
• holding that Google’s use of the plaintiff’s trademark as a keyword to trigger the display of the advertiser’s copy on Google’s search results page and as a suggestion to advertisers constituted “use in commerce”
• explaining that “use of a trademark in a software program’s internal directory [does not] preclude[] a finding of trademark use”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).