{"id":2859,"date":"2008-07-10T09:34:22","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T16:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2859"},"modified":"2008-07-10T09:42:56","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T16:42:56","slug":"lawsuit-down-at-the-crossings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2859","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit Down At The Crossings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/crossing-logo2.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/crossing-logo2.jpg','popup','width=791,height=612,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/crossing-logo2-tm.jpg\" height=\"154\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Crossing Logo2\" \/><\/a>The City of Carlsbad has filed a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dockets.justia.com\/docket\/court-casdce\/case_no-3:2008cv01211\/case_id-274135\/\" target=\"_blank\">lawsuit<\/a><\/strong> against <em>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> <strong>Prince Reza Shah<\/strong> claiming &#8220;numerous improper acts and (an) overall scheme to effectively hijack and unlawfully profit upon the name &#8220;The Crossings at Carlsbad,&#8221; according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20080710-9999-1mi10golf.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The city&#8217;s lawsuit says Shah applied for the trademark two months after the city registered the Internet domain name &#8220;thecrossingsatcarlsbad.com.&#8221; . . . It accuses Shah of &#8220;cybersquatting&#8221; by laying claim to names that incorporate &#8220;The Crossings at Carlsbad&#8221; name, but for which he has no &#8220;bona fide commercial use.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/raza.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/raza.jpg','popup','width=92,height=149,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/raza-tm.jpg\" height=\"161\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Raza\" \/><\/a>Shah&#8217;s rather shoddy looking godaddy.com site-holder website, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thecrossingsatcarlsbad.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">TheCrossingsAtCarlsbad.net<\/a><\/strong> features ads for several .mobi domains (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/visitcarlsbad.mobi\/\" target=\"_blank\">VisitCarlsbad.mobi<\/a><\/strong>) along with an email address. <\/p>\n<p>Shah apparently feels that he is completely justified with his trademarks and according to a fax quoted in the <em>Union-Tribune<\/em> is sending a letter &#8220;to the city&#8217;s golf course operator, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kempersports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">KemperSports<\/a><\/strong>, accusing it of trademark infringement and threatening a $10 million lawsuit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This should be interesting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20080710-9999-1mi10golf.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Carlsbad has filed a lawsuit against Carlsbadistan&#8217;s Prince Reza Shah claiming &#8220;numerous improper acts and (an) overall scheme to effectively hijack and unlawfully profit upon the name &#8220;The Crossings at Carlsbad,&#8221; according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune. The city&#8217;s lawsuit says Shah applied for the trademark two months after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}