Apple in cybersquatting fight over iTunes

[Mac Reporter]

Wed Dec 8, 2004 04:26 PM GMT

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. computer giant Apple is locked in a cybersquatting battle with a 22-year-old London Internet whiz kid over the itunes.co.uk website, a domain the company wants for its chain of iTunes online music stores.

Benjamin Cohen, who joined the Internet's millionaires club after founding the website Sojewish when he was just 17, said on Wednesday he registered itunes.co.uk during the dotcom boom in November, 2000, and wouldn't give it up without a fight.

He said Apple applied to trademark "iTunes" in October 2000, but that the application wasn't made public until December.
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