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Cyber-squatting and fake web sites are indeed threats to honest businesses everywhere. In another case, the University sued a Korean company called Itempool Media because the company published books under the name "Harvard Reader." The case, which the University won, was justified because the company was publishing educational materials that might honestly be mistaken as coming from the University itself...
...Itempool possessed a registered trademark for each of the five Harvard Reader series, four under Korean service class 52, and one under Korean service class 112, which covers educational services...
...Korean International Property Office (KIPO) initially revoked Itempool's class 112 trademark. However, the KIPO decision was nullified in an Itempool appeal to a higher patent court in March, and the "Harvard Reader" trademark was revalidated in Itempool's favor--until yesterday...
While the Supreme Court decision revoked one trademark, the fate of the four other trademarks related to the "Harvard Reader" has yet to be determined. Those four trademarks, all belonging to Korean service class 52, have been revoked by the KIPO, but Calixto said Itempool may still appeal the revocation...
...confident that if Itempool decides to appeal the KIPO ruling, the Supreme Court decision [today] sets the precedent for future ones," Calixto said...