1 December 2012Jurisdiction reportsMa. Consuelo Agno

Tackling cybercrime: a new approach

US courts have held that a website’s domain name signifies its source of origin, and is therefore an important signal to Internet users who are seeking to locate a web resource. Because of the importance of a domain name in identifying the source of a website, the use of a trademark within the domain name of a uniform resource locator (URL) can constitute a trademark violation.

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