Also, Moxon himself had no website of his own except for a blank white page, and he otherwise had virtually no Internet presence. In his response for AGP, attorney Graham Berry pointed out that the website had a large, very visible disclaimer asserting that Moxon actually had nothing to do with it. His complaint quoted the World Intellectual Property Organization: “The right to criticize does not necessarily extend to registering and using a domain name that is identical or confusingly similar to the complainant’s trademark.” The trademark, in this case, being Moxon’s own name.
Moxon argued that previous cases established that it was improper to use his name in this way. In short, the Respondent’s use of the Disputed Domain is in bad faith,” wrote Moxon’s attorney, Utah lawyer Steven Rinehart, who specializes in intellectual property disputes. “ conduct evidences a malicious, vindictive and purposeful campaign intended to embarrass, discredit, and defame the Complainant and to vitiate, dishonor, and impair the reputation and goodwill of the KENDRICK MOXON service mark. Moxon complained that AGP had purchased the domain name in bad faith and was using it to libel him. In July, Moxon filed a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum under the domain name dispute rules of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Its tag line was, “America’s Worst Lawyer?”
Yesterday, arbitrator and retired Texas judge Carolyn Marks Johnson took away the rights to the domain name from Donald Myers, a West Hollywood Scientology critic better known as ‘Angry Gay Pope,’ and awarded the domain to Scientology attorney Kendrick Moxon.ĪGP is known for his loud, brash way of protesting Scientology, whether in attention-getting public demonstrations or his online activities, which included the website named after the church attorney, Moxon.įor several years AGP had run the website, which lampooned and criticized Moxon.
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