You Can Now Trademark a Generic Word as Part of an Internet Domain Name

Justin Chae
7 min readJun 30, 2020

In a major reversal of intellectual property law, the U.S. Supreme Court says a generic word plus a domain such as “.com” is eligible for Federal trademark protection. Why this is a big deal for the Internet.

As reported by Bloomberg Law, on June 30, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a…

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Justin Chae

Justin writes about technology, programming, and general interest topics.