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Article: Goliath Volvo takes tiny Volo museum to task over name Web address is too close for comfort, carmaker complains
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 4, 2003
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One little "v" is causing big problems for an antique auto museum
in Volo, the tiny Lake County hamlet perhaps best known, if known at
all, for the Volo Bog.
The Volo Auto Museum is facing a challenge from Volvo Cars of
North America. Volvo maintains that the museum's Internet domain
name, Volocars.com, is too similar to Volvo's own, Volvo cars.com,
causing confusion for its customers.
The Swedish automaker, now owned by Ford Motor Co., is asking an
international agency that referees Internet disputes to order the
Volo museum to give up its domain name. A decision by the World
Intellectual Property Organization could come this week.
Volvo, the automaker, sold about 131,000 new vehicles in ...