Entrepreneur Media awarded more than $1 million for infringement of its brand name.

Newsletter on Newsletters, The, June, 2004

At least a dozen newsletters, websites, and journals with "entrepreneur" in their names are effectively on high alert following the decision by the 9th Court of Appeals to uphold an award of over $1 million in damages and fees for Scott Smith's infringement of Entrepreneur Media's trade-marked brand name, "entrepreneur."

Entrepreneur Media launched Entrepreneur Magazine in 1977 and obtained the trademark in 1982, when the word was still not widely known or used. In 1995, Scott Smith began providing public relations services to small businesses under the eventual company name of EntrepreneurPR. He also published a magazine called Entrepreneur Illustrated and a website called entrepreneurpr.com.

EM sued him for trademark infringement in 1998. Subsequent...

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