Winston & Strawn Secures Award of Professional Athlete and Celebrity Domain Names for NBA's Chris Bosh in Cybersquatting Case

Winston & Strawn Secures Award of Professional Athlete and Celebrity Domain
Names for NBA's Chris Bosh in Cybersquatting Case
Bosh Gets Award of Nearly 800 Domain Names And Offers Their Return for Free to
Cybersquatting Victims

CHICAGO, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- In a landmark legal case, Toronto Raptors
forward Chris Bosh has won custody of nearly 800 domain names wrongfully
appropriated from professional athletes and celebrities. Through his social
media firm, Max Deal, Bosh is offering to return the domain names for free to
their rightful owners. The offer was announced by Bosh's agent, Henry Thomas,
Co-President of Max Deal, Hadi Teherany, and Bosh's law firm, Winston & Strawn
LLP, which secured the victory.

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The award of the domain names to Bosh issued on September 24, 2009 by Judge
Florence-Marie Cooper and carried out yesterday, follows an award of $120,000
in April, 2009 for the violation of Bosh's rights under the Federal
Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act in federal court for the Central
District of California against Luis Zavala and his company Hoopology.com, who
had registered the domain "chrisbosh.com." The infringing website originally
displayed ads using Bosh's name to generate revenue for Zavala and
Hoopology.com, but had no actual association to Bosh. Zavala also owned and
used nearly 800 other domains which incorporated the names of various
professional athletes, college and high school athletes as well as well-known
entertainers, product names and other entertainment properties, for the same
purposes.

Bosh's law firm, Winston & Strawn, convinced the court to award Bosh each of
the nearly 800 domains owned by Zavala and Hoopology.com. The list contains
the names of famous athletes and entertainers, including Olympic gold
medalists, the NBA's Deron Williams and Tayshaun Prince, NBA All-Stars Rashard
Lewis, Danny Granger and Maurice Williams, the NBA's Charlie Villanueva, Hedo
Turkoglu, Andre Iguodala and Andrea Bargnani, as well as the president and
general manager and 11 current and former players for Bosh's own team. For
the full list of domain names see
http://www.winston.com/siteFiles/Domain_Name_List.pdf.

"I am thrilled that I am able to offer the return of these domain names to a
host of other athletes and celebrities whose names were cybersquatted," said
Chris Bosh, a four-time NBA All-Star, and Olympic gold medalist. "I will
offer the return of the domain names free of charge, but I'd also love the
opportunity to show their owners how Max Deal can help."

"From my perspective, Chris is a cyber-hero," said Brian Heidelberger, the
Winston & Strawn partner who represented Bosh in this matter, along with
Winston & Strawn associates Marc Trachtenberg and Mark L. Smith.

Winston & Strawn LLP is an international commercial law firm with 12 offices
across the U.S. as well as in Europe and Asia. It has extensive experience in
e-commerce, advertising, promotions and entertainment law, and has
successfully represented many other major corporations and individuals in
cybersquatting and other e-commerce related matters. More information is
available at www.winston.com.

Max Deal is a social media company that allows brands to increase their reach
to audiences by using digital media as a means of communication.

Henry Thomas of CAA Sports represents several elite athlete clients and
provides media and marketing services to both new and established sports
property brands.

The new and current registrar for the portfolio of domain names is Safenames
Ltd., specializing in global domain registration. The case citation is
2:08-cv-04851-FMC-MANx.

SOURCE Winston & Strawn LLP

Darryl Van Duch, Senior Communications Manager of Winston & Strawn LLP,
+1-312-558-6185, dvanduch@winston.com