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My last name is Rosoft

Most people give up when caught red-handed. Others engage in embarrassing hair-splitting sophistry to excuse their actions. New Bergerber Man: Domain Defenses from the WIPO Archives is concerned with the latter; the site catalogs the horrible defenses used by domain-name squatters.

Author Kevin Shay keeps the excerpts of the indefensible defenses short and links to the full decisions (for the legally inclined). He took the name of the his site from an archetypal case:

Respondent [claims that] without any prior knowledge of Complainant’s trademark [("Neuberger Berman"), he] invented the name New Bergerber Man in a story he wrote with hopes of turning it into a movie. He contends he plans to use the domain name for the movie.

These staggering examples of chutzpah are sorted by defense type and amusing as hell.

(Via Daniel Radosh)