Chanel, Inc. manufactures luxury handbags, wallets, shoes, backpacks, and other high-end products with its iconic Chanel...

 

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Chanel, Inc. manufactures luxury handbags, wallets, shoes, backpacks, and other high-end products with its iconic Chanel trademark (the name "Chanel" in a particular font and format, and two overlapping "C"s facing opposite directions). Chanel also has a webpage, chanel.com. Ricardo Vince owned fifty percent of "Total Service," a company that made counterfeit Chanel goods. Vince registered the trademark "chanelgraffiti" with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office. Total Service registered two websites, chanelgraffitibackpack.com and buychanelgraffitibackpack.com. Those webpages showed backpacks with a similar, if not identical, mark as the Chanel trademark. Chanel sued Vince and Total Service for violations of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA). Were the actions of Vince and Total Service likely violations of the ACPA? Chanel, Inc. manufactures luxury handbags, wallets, shoes, backpacks, and other high-end products with its iconic Chanel trademark (the name "Chanel" in a particular font and format, and two overlapping "C"s facing opposite directions). Chanel also has a webpage, chanel.com. Ricardo Vince owned fifty percent of "Total Service," a company that made counterfeit Chanel goods. Vince registered the trademark "chanelgraffiti" with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office. Total Service registered two websites, chanelgraffitibackpack.com and buychanelgraffitibackpack.com. Those webpages showed backpacks with a similar, if not identical, mark as the Chanel trademark. Chanel sued Vince and Total Service for violations of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA). Were the actions of Vince and Total Service likely violations of the ACPA?