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Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009 | 11:05 a.m.
The M Resort in Henderson is suing to block a Chinese Web site operator from infringing on the M Resort's trademarks.
Attorneys for the hotel-casino filed suit in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas on Tuesday, claiming Hu Mei Li in Shanghai is operating a Web site with a domain name confusingly similar to the M Resort Web site name, themresort.com.
The M Resort asserts the defendant is cybersquatting, or posting a Web site with a confusingly similar name in order to attract viewers intending to find the real M Resort Web site.
A look at the defendant's Web site Wednesday showed it's hosted by a company called Sedo and that the domain name may be for sale. The site includes links to several travel-business Web sites.
In its suit, filed by attorneys with the Las Vegas law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, the M Resort complains that at one point the defendant's Web site was linked to a Web site featuring adult content, "namely provocative images of women."
Now, the lawsuit claims, the defendant is wrongly associating the M Resort name with online travel services that book rooms at hotels that compete with the M Resort.
The suit alleges cybersquatting, trademark infringement, unfair competition and violation of Nevada's deceptive trade practices law.
"In the course of conducting business, defendant knowingly made false representations as to an affiliation, connection and/or association with M Resort by using marks identical and/or confusingly similar to plaintiff's M Resort marks, and otherwise engaged in deceptive trade practices," the lawsuit charges.
The defendant hasn't yet responded to the allegations and couldn't immediately be located for comment.
Oz
"If you need further help, get with Adelson, Wynn, and MGM Mirage. They got connections with that Chinese commie crowd"
Only as long as Stanley Ho let's them.
Well heck maybe if our casinos here in Vegas would get rid if all the Asian dealers they might not have a problem.Where do they get their ideas from anyway. I am sick and tired of hearing about the unemployment rate setting new records and all I am begining to see in the casinos is Asian workers who grin and nod.You can say anything to them and they just grin and nod.So I believe that they are using us as pawns to gain for their own profits.So the casinos want to now complain your the ones hiring them and allowing them on the inside of your company you deserve to be infringed on M resort
Several times over the years, I've typed what I thought would lead me to a specific company or person's website, only to end up at some obviously deceptive site. We just got home from a trip to LV. The M resort is a nice place, but has a couple of serious negatives. The name "M Resort" is hardly a very creative name and certainly doesn't excite the way names such as MGM or Caesar's Palace among others do. City Center will have the same problem. (usually associated with City Hall). The other negative for M is the location. While I don't mind driving to where we're going to eat, shop or whatever, I know some who prefer to turn their car in to the valet and not need to use it for days. There's a reason all of these shady websites are overseas, the U.S. courts have little or no authority. Hopefully M will prevail on the website issue, and prove me wrong on the location and name issues.
Page 5 it claims they have copies on exhibit D which are true copies of the www.mresort.com pages 23rd of September 3009 - which is nearly 1000 years in the future !
You would think a high class lawyer would proof read their own documents before handing them to court ?
Hope M Hotel arn't paying them too much they might even loose if the defandant dosen't turn up if they are as careless of the day of the trial !
Domain: wwwthemresort.com
I read the case PDF, looked at the "website" and checked the stats. Here's the deal: Sedo.com is a web-parking/domain selling service. I have multiple domains parked there myself. Until the domains sell, sedo runs ads on them and shares revenue. Typically these domains are crap and generate little to no revenue (mine have generated $0 and no domains have sold).
On all sedo domains, there is a link -- clearly visible -- "Buy this domain" or similar. Click that link and you go to a page where you can make an offer for the name. Also, stats are shown.
According to the stats, this domain has had *nineteen* visits in the last month. Nineteen. Not nineteen-hundred or nineteen-thousand or nineteen-million. Nineteen. Unless those nineteen people include Warren Buffet and Bill Gates I'm not sure how much business the M Resort stands to lose here.
The M Resort did not indicate in their complaint that they made an offer for the name (unless I missed it).
I know they need to protect their mark and I do believe that the domain was registered with cybersquatting intentions, but this lawsuit and the executive decisions behind it seem just plain stupid and arrogant. Much cheaper and easier to suck it up and buy the domain from the Chinese guy WHOM THEY HOLD VERY WEAK LEGAL JURISDICTION OVER, and just call it "that's what we get for making the stupid mistake of not defensively registering the domain name to begin with." In the meantime they pay their lawyers and actually drive more traffic to the "offenders" domain name.
Where does it end? I see that "themresortcom.com", "www-themresort.com", "www-the-mresort.com" and many more are available... Wanna bankrupt the M? Register some domain names. Heh.
Retards. Every one of 'em. I wonder how many people they'll need to lay off to pay for this legal goose chase?
P.S. I am not a lawyer, just someone with an opinion.
Japanesse, Chinesse, Korean, Vietamesse, Laotion, Tawainesse, I can't tell the difference between them. All dealers.
To Rodtig and Burritobandit2,
Why don't you re-read your post again? how racist can you be? what does a chinese company in communist china got to do with the Asian dealers in LV?
By the way, maybe those Asians took all the dealer jobs because they can do math better than you?
Shanghai, China..... The main headquarters and starting place for the most hated company in the world....AIG.....