Jay Leno wins cybersquatting case

July 02, 2009 Jay Leno has won a cybersquatting case against a Texas man found by a U.N. agency to have misused the domain name thejaylenoshow.com to direct Internet users to a real estate Web site. In a ruling issued on Thursday, the World Intellectual Property Organization said Leno had common law trademark rights to his name after a 30-year career in entertainment, even though Guadalupe Zambrano registered the site in 2004. Furthermore, real estate agent Zambrano did not have any legitimate rights to the disputed web address and had registered it in "bad faith," according to the ruling by William Towns, an independent arbitrator appointed by the Geneva-based agency.

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