Trademarking A Name In The Internet Age
A number of years ago the well known actor Morgan Freeman found out that the company Mighty LLC was illegally using the domain name www.forganfreeman.com "in bad faith to divert Internet traffic to a commercial search engine." Freeman applied to the USPTO for a trademark.
His claim went to arbitration. Ultimately, in 2005, the arbitrators for the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) - the intellectual property component of the United Nations - agreed with the actor and determined
