Is this trademark infringement? (1.Viewing)

Crossed my mind too but I’m sure the law firm carefully considered that and it would fall under something like “fair use”, or that’s what they would argue if Uber wanted to fight it. “Similar” to searssucks.com and the other sucks domains/cases we’ve seen in the past.
 
There is no doubt this is trademark infringement
 
First off, note that UberLawyer was registered a few years before Uber existed.

The word uber itself has a meaning of "denoting an outstanding or supreme example of a particular kind of person or thing."
Therefore UberLawyer would be recognized on its own as non-infringing and legitimate domain and no problem at all using it as a lawyer's website.

However, since they specifically call out Uber & Lyft & ridesharing in general, obviously that's where Uber could make a complaint.

From a domain dispute perspective, I'd think their current usage is at least inviting a dispute. But the complainant has to show bad faith:

(i) the domain was registered primarily for the purpose of selling it to the complainant or a competitor for more than the documented out-of-pocket expenses related to the name; or
(ii) the domain was registered in order to prevent the mark owner from using it, provided that the registrant has engaged in a pattern of such registration; or
(iii) the domain was registered primarily to disrupt the business of a competitor; or
(iv) by using the domain, the registrant has intentionally attempted to attract users for commercial gain by creating a likelihood of confusion as to source or affiliation.

But I'd see it panning out like this:

(i) fail. Registered prior to Uber's existence by a few years.
(ii) fail. Registered prior to Uber's existence by a few years.
(iii) fail. They're not a competitor.
(iv) probably fail. I don't anyone is going to think they're hiring a lawyer that works for uber when they're trying to sue uber over an accident.

So I kinda think they might win the dispute (but you never really know...).
 

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