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Article: In dispute over use of city name "Barcelona" as internet domain name, Fourth Circuit reverses district court for applying Spanish law rather than Lanham Act because Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) requires application of U.S. law.
- Article from:
- International Law Update
- Article date:
- August 1, 2003
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Barcelona.com, Inc. (hereinafter Bcom, Inc.), is a Delaware corporation established in 1999 by Mr. Joan Nogueras Cobo (a Spanish citizen) and Mr. Shahab Hanif (a British citizen) to use the internet domain name barcelona.com as an internet-based tourist portal for the city of Barcelona, Spain. To register the domain name, Nogueras used Network Solutions, Inc., of Virginia. It has a provision in all its contracts that require the resolution of disputes through the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) put out by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) (see www.icann.org). While Bcom, Inc., maintains a New York mailing address, it does ...