Pirate Water Taxi, LLC v. Tampa Water Taxi Company, LLC
We appealed an adverse ruling against our client in a domain name arbitration that required our client to transfer the domain, tampawatertaxi.com, to the opposing party. In the district court lawsuit, we demonstrated that the unregistered mark, Tampa Water Taxi, was geographically descriptive and had not acquired secondary meaning. As such, our client was permitted to retain the domain and use the mark in its advertising. We also obtained a judgment for our client’s costs against the defendant.