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Groupon Files Lawsuit Against Australian Clone “Scoopon”
Alexia Tsotsis
Jan 4, 2011
An interesting post just went up on the Groupon blog announcing a lawsuit filed against Australian Groupon clone Scoopon. The post explains the unprecedented move of taking legal action against a Groupon clone, which apparently is squatting on the Groupon.com.au domain name. The case goes to Australian court on February 4th, and in the meantime Groupon will be doing business in Australia under the name Stardeals.
Says Groupon CEO Andrew Mason:
“The worldwide proliferation of Groupon clones has been well documented. One particular clone in Australia called Scoopon, created by the brothers Gabby and Hezi Leibovitch, has been making life difficult for us. Scoopon went a little further than just starting their Groupon clone – they actually purchased the Groupon.com.au domain name, took the company name Groupon Pty Limited, and tried to register the Groupon trademark (filing for the trademark just seven days before us) in Australia.
The way we see things, this is a classic case of domain squatting – an unfortunate reality of the Internet business. As Groupon became internationally known, opportunistic domain squatters around the world started to buy local Groupon domain names, thinking that we’d eventually be forced to buy them at an insane price. In fact, we tried to do just that, reluctantly offering Gabby and Hezi Leibovich about $286,000 for the Groupon.com.au domain and trademark—an offer they accepted. But now they’ve changed their minds, and we believe that they’ll only sell us the domain and trademark if we’re willing to buy the entire Scoopon business from them. Left with no other options, we’ve filed a lawsuit against Scoopon, claiming that their Groupon trademark was filed in bad faith (amongst other things).”
Groupon will also be prosecuting the Leibovich brothers for trademark infringement in its home state of Illinois, despite Scoopon being Australia-based. While it remains to be seen how valid a claim on a US trademark will be considered internationally, with Groupon in the process of raising nearly $1 billion at a $4.75 billion valuation, it certainly has a war chest to go after any of the thousands of clones stepping on its toes.
著名团购网站Groupon在官方博客中宣布起诉澳大利亚的Groupon克隆网站Scoopon。Groupon在博客中解释道，Scoopon明显侵占了Groupon的域名Groupon.com.au，并恶意注册其商标。本诉讼案将于2月4日在澳大利亚法院开庭审理，在此期间，Groupon将以Stardeals为名在澳大利亚开展业务。
Groupon首席执行官安德鲁·梅森（Andrew Mason）表示：“我们已经将全球的Groupon克隆网站记录下来，其中一家便是澳大利亚的Scoopon，它由盖比（Gabby）和黑茨·雷波维奇（Hezi Leibovitch）兄弟创办。Scoopon的出现已经对Groupon的运营带来了困难。除了克隆Groupon网站外，Scoopon还购买了Groupon域名Groupon.com.au，将自己公司的名字注册为Groupon Pty Limited，并试图在澳大利亚注册Groupon商标。他们比我们提前7天向澳大利亚提交了商标注册申请材料。”
梅森进一步称：“这是一起典型的域名侵占事件，Groupon对此感到遗憾。随着Groupon在全球的知名度越来越高，域名侵占者开始在全世界各地购买Groupon的本地域名，他们认为Groupon最终将以高价收购这些域名。事实上，我们也曾不情愿地尝试为Groupon澳大利亚域名Groupon.com.au和商标支付给盖比和雷波维奇28.6万美元。但现在，他们改变了主意。他们表示，只有Groupon完整地收购Scoopon业务，才将Groupon澳大利亚域名和商标卖给我们。我们别无选择，已经对Scoopon提起诉讼，指控其恶意注册Groupon商标，并违反了一些其他法律。”
尽管Scoopon是一家澳大利亚公司，但同时Groupon将在总部所在的美国伊利诺伊州对这起商标侵权案提起诉讼。目前，Groupon的估值约为47.5亿美元，正在进行10亿美元融资。国外媒体表示，这起诉讼案将会向公众明示美国的商标在国际上的有效性。Groupon也将对全球数千家Groupon克隆网站发起一场保卫战。
作者：tutu 在 海归商务 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
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