Open AccessSearching for Initial Interest Confusion im Trademark Protection in Cyberspace
Author(s) -
David M. Fritch
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
pittsburgh journal of technology law and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2164-800X
DOI - 10.5195/tlp.2006.24
Subject(s) - cyberspace , the internet , world wide web , trademark , confusion , computer science , internet privacy , web site , domain name , domain (mathematical analysis) , computer security , psychology , psychoanalysis , operating system , mathematical analysis , mathematics
The modern Internet enables “millions of people to communicate with one another and to access vast amounts of information from around the world.”
1 Due to the enormous repository of information the Internet makes available online, some have compared the Internet to an immense “library with no card catalog.”2 While web users can generally access web sites directly with a domain name, the sheer size of the Internet makes it difficult for the average web surfer to locate the majority of web sites unless they know the web site address beforehand.3