In this assignment you are to select and make a business recommendation for one of the business legal issues listed in table 1.0. You will need to conduct the necessary legal research to support your recommendation. You are to (1) clearly identify the legal issue, (2) identify any business risk associated with the issue, (3) conduct the necessary research to support your recommendation using high quality sources and (4) Provide a recommendation that demonstrates critical thinking through a careful analysis of the problem. Your paper should be 3 to 5 pages in length. The report must document legal citations in support of your recommendation and conclusions. Your effort on this assignment will be evaluated using the attached scoring rubric. The due date is available on the course website. I will be checking your legal case citations and statute references.

Possible search terms: trademark, cyber squatting, trademark dilution, licensing ?

Here is the situation:

Blackhawk Corporation began marketing software in 1990 under the mark Blackhawk. In 2002, Blackhawk.com, ?Inc. a different company selling different products, begins to use Blackhawk as part of its URL and registers it as a domain name. Can ?Blackhawk Corporation stop this use of Blackhawk? If so, what must the company show? ?

Please include in the research paper the “possible search terms”.