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MGM Resorts International is suing an Internet poker operator, charging it’s infringing on the Gold Strike casino trademarks.
MGM Resorts filed suit Thursday in federal court in Las Vegas against WorldPokerRewardsClub.com Company Inc. and John George of Blaine, Wash.
The suit says the defendants have websites called goldstrikepoker.com and goldstrikepoker.net and have registered user names containing the Gold Strike name on social network sites including Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
The use of the Gold Strike name infringes on MGM Resorts’ trademark covering its Gold Strike hotel-casinos in Jean, Nev., south of Las Vegas; and in Tunica, Miss., the lawsuit alleges.
The suit says attorneys for MGM Resorts in July asked the defendants to cease their allegedly infringing activities and that they voluntarily transfer the allegedly infringing website domain names to MGM Resorts.
The suit says George agreed to change the name of his website to "Gold Rush Poker,’’ but the defendants refused to turn over the website domain names because they are valuable and demanded that MGM Resorts buy them.
MGM Resorts also alleges that after the defendants were confronted by MGM Resorts in July, they filed applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to obtain trademarks covering the marks........
read more: http://www.vegasinc.com/news/2011/aug/26/mgm-files-lawsuit-over-gold-strike-casino-trademar/
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