gator.com Corp. v. L.L. Bean

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

GATOR.COM CORP.,  No. 02-15035 Plaintiff-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-01-01126-MEJ

L.L. BEAN, INC.,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Maria-Elena James, Magistrate Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 22, 2004—San Francisco, California

Filed February 15, 2005

Before: Mary M. Schroeder, Chief Judge, Warren J. Ferguson, Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Pamela Ann Rymer, A. Wallace Tashima, Susan P. Graber, M. Margaret McKeown, William A. Fletcher, Ronald M. Gould, Richard A. Paez, and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge O’Scannlain; Concurrence by Judge Tashima; Dissent by Judge W. Fletcher

1833 1836 GATOR.COM CORP. v. L.L. BEAN, INC.

COUNSEL

Michael Traynor, Cooley Godward LLP, San Francisco, Cali- fornia, argued the cause for the appellant; Thomas J. Friel, Jr., and Brian E. Mitchell, Cooley Godward LLP, San Francisco, California, and L. Scott Primak, Redwood City, California, were on the briefs.

Daniel J. Bergeson and Melinda M. Morton, Bergeson,…