ANTICYBERSQUATTING CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT

Anticybersquatting  Consumer  Protection  Act.Trademarks.  A 1999 federal law authorizing a

trademark owner to obtain a federal-court order transferring ownership of a domain name from a

cybersquatter  to  the  trademark  owner.  •  A  mark’s  owner  must  show  that  (1)  the  mark  and  the

domain name are identical or confusingly similar; (2) the mark was distinctive when the domain

name  was  first  registered;  (3)  the  trademark’s  owner  used  the  mark  commercially  before  the

domain  name  was  registered;  and  (4)  the  domain  registrant  acted  in  bad  faith  and  intended  to

profit  from  the  trademark’s  use.  Registering  a  domain  name  with  the  intent  to  sell  it  to  the

trademark owner is  presumptively an act of bad  faith. But if a  defendant can  prove a legitimate

reason for the domain-name registration, the defendant may be allowed to keep the name. — Abbr.

ACPA. — Also termed Trademark Cy-berpiracy Prevention Act. [Cases: Trade Regulation    628.

C.J.S. Trade-Marks, Trade-Names, and Unfair Competition § 298.] [Blacks Law 8th]