Law for Business 12th Edition by James Barnes,Terry Dworkin,Eric Richards

Exercise 7

Lockheed owns the federally registered SKUNK WORKS service mark for "engineering, technical consulting, and advisory services with respect to designing, building, equipping, and testing commercial and military aircraft and related equipment." Despite this fact, several companies registered domain names such as "skunkwrks.com," "skunkworks.com," "skunkwerks.com," "the-skunkwerks.com," and "theskunkworks. com." Lockheed claims that Network Solutions (NSI) directly infringed its SKUNK WORKS service mark by accepting the domain name registrations. Is Network Solutions liable to Lockheed for direct infringement and dilution of Lockheed's service mark? Explain.