Porsche Cars North America, Inc. v. Allporshe.Com

Porsche Cars North America, Inc. and Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche A.G. (collectively "Porsche") filed this action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on January 6, 1999, asserting a federal trademark dilution claim under section 43(c) of the Lanham Act, see 15 U.S.C.A. § 1125(c) (West 1998), against each of 128 individual Internet domain names (collectively the Defendant Domain Names). Porsche alleged that each defendant domain name illegally dilutes either its "Porsche" or its "Boxster" federally registered trademarks. With respect to relief, Porsche sought an injunction and order transferring and/or forfeiting to it the Defendant Domain Names.