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The Anticybersquatting Protection Act is '''Title III of S. 1948, 106th Congress, the Intellectual Property and Communications Omnibus Reform Act of 1999.'''<ref>[http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c106:1:./temp/~c106XL7the:e80238: S. 1948]</ref> It was enacted as final appendix to '''Public Law 106-113''', <ref>[http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/cyberlaw/ACPA-PL106-113.html]P.L.106-113]</ref> which was signed into law by President [[Bill Clinton]] on November 29, 1999.<ref>[http://democrats.rules.house.gov/archives/98-714.pdf CRS Report for Congress]</ref>
The Anticybersquatting Protection Act is '''Title III of S. 1948, 106th Congress, the Intellectual Property and Communications Omnibus Reform Act of 1999.'''<ref>[http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c106:1:./temp/~c106XL7the:e80238: S. 1948]</ref> It was enacted as final appendix to '''Public Law 106-113''', <ref>[http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/cyberlaw/ACPA-PL106-113.html]P.L.106-113]</ref> which was signed into law by President [[Bill Clinton]] on November 29, 1999.<ref>[http://democrats.rules.house.gov/archives/98-714.pdf CRS Report for Congress]</ref>
==Court Cases related to Violations Of ACPA==
* Newport News Holdings Corporation (NNHC) vs. Virtual City Vision, Inc. (VCV)- This case was first resolved under the [[ICANN]] Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy ([[UDRP]]) in 2000 when NNHC accused VCV's newportnews.com website was registered in bad faith andconfusingly similar to its Newport News website. The ICANN UNDRP panel dismissed NNHC's allegations citing that even if the domain names are similar, visitors to NNHC's branded website were looking for women's clothing and home fashions. VCV's website offers city information. The panel also cited that there in no competition between the two companies business offering. VCV's website remained unchanged not until 2004 when it started to women clothing advertisements. In 2007, NNHC offered to buy VCV's website however, its owner declined and changed newportnews.com's business offerings from providing city information to women's fashions. In 2008, the website became highly dominated with women's clothing and this prompted NNHC to file trademark infringement case agains VCV.<ref>[http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=10290906611629346909 NNHC vs. VCV]</ref>
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