Case

A federal district court in Virginia recently issued a preliminary injunction to prevent a company from using a competitor's trademarks online.  Deltek Inc. v. Iuovo Systems, Inc., No. 09-330 (E.D. Va. Apr. 20, 2009).  In this case, Deltek sued Iuovo for visibly using the Deltek name to advertise services and for including the mark in meta tags to drive traffic to the Iuovo website.  The court held that this use may cause consumers to erroneously conclude that Iuovo is affiliated with Deltek and, therefore, amounts to trademark infringement.

Audi AG ("Audi") filed a lawsuit against Bob D'Amato ("D'Amato") alleging that D'Amato's audisport.com website infringed and diluted Audi's trademarks. Audi further alleged that D'Amato violated the AntiCybersquatting Consumer Protection Act through his use of the audisport.com website. Audi filed a motion for summary judgment and prevailed on this motion at the trial level. On appeal, the appellate court affirmed the district court's ruling concluding that D'Amato was liable for trademark infringement, dilution, and violation of the AntiCybersquatting Consumer Protection Act.

Plaintiff Louis Vuitton Malletier ("Louis Vuitton") sued Haute Diggity Dog, LLC ("HDD") seeking to prevent HDD from selling its "Chewy Vuitton" line of dog toys and dog beds.

437 F.Supp.2d 273 (D.N.J. 2006). Online cigar retailer sued search engine for trademark infringement and fraud.