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Visa vs. evisa.com In Vegas

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the registering-english-namespace dept.

wessman writes "In October 2002, Visa (the credit card company) convinced a Las Vegas federal court to prevent the small business JSL Corp. from using the term 'evisa' and the domain 'evisa.com' for its website offering travel, foreign language, and other multilingual applications and services. The court ruled that the website--run by Joe Orr from his apartment-- 'diluted' Visa's trademark, even though the site uses the word 'visa' in its ordinary dictionary definition, not in relation to credit card services. Now, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is helping JSL with an appeal. The EFF has a press release available."

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  1. Power by Kandel · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Aaah...another fine example of a big corporation abusing ones power, not because it is legally viable, but simply, just because they can.