Patents.com For Sale
Web addresses patents.com and patents.net are up for sale, popular patent law blogger Dennis Crouch pointed out on his PatentlyO blog. As of Tuesday, the highest offer was $10,000. Bidding for the domain names, which are being sold as a pair, ends June 15. Domain name expert Steve Morsa commented on Crouch's blog that patents.com is worth at least $200,000 by itself and .net is worth $50,000 on its own.
For years, the addresses belonged to Colorado law firm Oppedahl & Larson, which has been disbanded. Patents.com has a storied past, Crouch noted. In 2004, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's refusal to register "patents.com" to the firm. The court ruled the proposed mark was "merely descriptive" and not eligible for trademark protection.
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