Now the first thing you need to know is that the ACPA, the Anti-cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, has a very limited number of cases that have been decided under it. The language of the statute is fairly clear, but, as with any law, there's room for disagreement about what the statute really means. One of the defenses a cybersquatter will put forward if you sue them under the ACPA is that they did not have the bad faith intent to profit from your trademark when they registered, used, or trafficked in the domain.
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My name is cybersquatting law attorney Enrico Schaefer. Today what we're going to do is we're going to talk a little bit about a lawsuit that we concluded recently, an Anti-cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act lawsuit brought by our client, the plaintiff, against a number of defendants who had registered en masse, not tens, not dozens, but hundreds of typographical variations of our client's famous and incontestable trademarks. There were a lot of lessons learned along the way, and I want to share some of those lessons with you as we talk about what kinds of defenses you might expect to see if you file an anti-cybersquatting consumer protection act lawsuit as a plaintiff against a defendant in court.
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