Settlement Talks with Verizon — Above.com In
Domain firm working toward settlement over trademark lawsuit.
Above.com is right now in settlement talks with Verizon over a lawsuit brought by Verizon in February, as stated by court records.
Verizon filed the suit against Above.com, parent firm Trellian, and some of its key employees back in February. It also served the firm during DOMAINfest.
The complaint alleges that the defendants use a number of false identities to traffic in trademark-infringing domain names. It alleges the firm has registered, used and/or provided Above.com privacy service to at least 183 domains counting Verizon’s trademarks, counting VerizWireless.com, ActivateVerizon.net, and loginvzw.com.
The defendants were granted an extension until May 8 to respond to the suit. But all parties asked the court to extend the deadline to May 23 in order to work toward settlement:
good cause exists for granting the requested extension of time, specifically, that Verizon and Trellian are engaging in settlement discussions, and the requested continuance will allow Verizon and Trellian to continue moving towards settlement
Stay tuned to Reglike for updates.
