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frog-prince.jpgSan Diego – HomeVestors of America, Inc., a franchised business that buys up bank-owned and hard-to-sell homes for cash, has been busy lately protecting its WE BUY UGLY HOUSES trademark.  HomeVestor’s business has flourished since the housing bubble popped, making it increasingly aggressive with protecting its intellectual property against third-party infringers.

HomeVestors is the #1 buyer…

domain-name-http- www.jpgSan Diego – Recently, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) announced a new plan to dramatically increase the number of generic top-level domain names, or GTLD’s, by the end of 2012.  With the expansion of possibly hundreds of additional GTLD’s, this could mean a deluge of opportunities cybersquatters and problems for trademark holders.

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