The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas sued a Chinese website operator Tuesday, claiming the defendant is operating a counterfeit version of the Cosmopolitan website.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, asks that the court issue an emergency order requiring domain name registrars to remove or disable the allegedly offending website domain name.
The real Cosmopolitan website is at cosmopolitanlasvegas.com.
The $3.9 billion Cosmopolitan hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip, a resort with 2,995 rooms, says in the lawsuit that the counterfeit website operator ''is profiting or is intending to profit from the Cosmopolitan trademarks.''
The website operator hasn’t been identified but is believed to be operating out of China, the lawsuit says. A local phone number on the counterfeit website is not a Cosmopolitan number, but instead appears to be related to Chinese job listing websites, the lawsuit says.
This is the second such suit of its kind in recent weeks. On May 1, Las Vegas Sands Corp. filed suit in the same court after learning a party had put up a counterfeit version of its website.
Attorneys at the Las Vegas office of the law firm Lewis and Roca represent both the Cosmopolitan and Las Vegas Sands in the suits alleging trademark infringement.