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Rosetta Stone Suit Against Google For Selling Trademark Keywords is Thrown Out

April 29, 2010 by Michael Berkens

A federal judge dismissed a trademark infringement lawsuit filed by  Rosetta Stone Inc against Google back in July 2009, for selling keywords containing its trademark.

Rosetta complained that consumers who search for “Rosetta Stone” on Google could click on a “sponsored ad” and visit the site of “a software pirate that purports to be Rosetta, but in reality sells a sub-standard product.”

Rosetta, said it had hoped for a full jury trial, and may appeal to a higher court.

But for now Google has one yet another round in the many keyword trademark suits against it

Filed Under: Legal, Publicly Traded Domain Co

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. Ed Muller says

    April 29, 2010 at 8:36 pm

    It should come as no surprise that Rosetta is going to fight long and hard on this one. They were my first C&D ever a few years ago, despite the fact that did not have any ads on what was once a very generic term.

  2. sex.com sex.co sex.xxx sex.net sex.org sex.gov sex.edu sex.sex says

    April 29, 2010 at 9:46 pm

    it was found in 1799

    ht
    tp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone

    can be trademarked today?

  3. Learn Language says

    May 11, 2010 at 1:20 pm

    Learn Language,the Rosetta Stone software is the best choice.Based on the results of the full application of brain research,the fastest way to learn a language.

  4. luly says

    May 28, 2010 at 3:40 am

    rosettastoneoutlet


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