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Article: Maryland dealer accused of "cybersquatting".
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- Fuel Oil News
- Article date:
- December 1, 2000
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Nine Baltimore area fuel oil dealers have accused another marketer of unfair business practices and several other offenses in a case involving "cybersquatting' a practice of registering Internet domain names expressly for the purpose of preventing others from using them. Five of the marketers -- Rittenhouse Fuel Co., Blue Ridge Fuel Corp., the H.C. McComas Fuel Co., Liberty Oil Co., and Tevis Oil, Inc. -- have filed a joint complaint against Carroll Independent Fuel Co., charging Carroll with trademark dilution, violation of the anti-cybersquatting act, trademark/tradename infringement, unfair competition-tortious interference with current and prospective business ...