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March 27, 2005

Pro se litigant wins trademark dispute

BoingBoing has a link to an interesting tale of an enterprising web page developer who had set up a fan page for a local mall.  The mall developer sued to shut him down, he registered a number of *sucks.com sites (including one directed at the developer's attorneys) and represented himself pro se in the litigation (he eventually had the assistance of counsel) and WON.  [I recommend reading the condensed version...the full version is extremely detailed]

UPDATE.  Oops...I missed some really great TechLawAdvisor posts on this same topic.  See:

Posted at 12:34 PM in Lawsuits |

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