Nissan Motor Co V. Nissan Computer Corporation
In December 1999, legal action was instituted by Nissan Motor seeking $10,000,000 in damages from Uzi Nissan, president of Nissan Computer. In December 2002, Uzi Nissan was handed an injunction restricting his use of the Nissan name and the domains Nissan.com and Nissan.net which he owns.
In 2004, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals allowed Nissan Computer to appeal the case, which resulted in reversal of some findings previously in favor of Nissan Motor.
On February 5, 2008, Final Judgement was entered for the case, with Nissan Computer being awarded costs and neither party prevailing. Immediately following the ruling, Nissan Motor filed a trademark application for Computer Equipment in March 2008, viewed by some as an attempt to acquire the domain through UDRP, an arbitration panel proceeding which often finds in favor of trademark holders.
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