Under a split decision issued by WIPO, Lewis & Hand, LLP successfully defends the generic Spanish-language domain name cloro.com from overreaching claims of abusive cybersquatting by the trademark owner, with the majority of the Panel finding: “Businesses are entitled to register domain names with generic meaning and value as an investment and decide what to do with them later. They may use them for any non-infringing use, or sell them, as they see fit.” The Clorox Company v. Domains for sale, dba Netegg, Case No. D2010-0831 (August 13, 2010).

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