Dueling Election Organizations Seek OK of Website Trademark Deal

American Policy Roundtable, an election-related organization in Ohio that operates ivoters.com, has reached a settlement in principle with fellow advocacy group Heritage Alliance to resolve trademark claims relating to their competing voter guides, court documents show.

APR launched ivoters.com in 2003, and Heritage, a political action committee, launched ivoterguide.com in 2007. Hertiage filed a lawsuit in 2018 after getting a cease-and-desist letter from APR.

Most of the claims in the lawsuit were dismissed in 2019, but Heritage’s cyberpiracy claim survived. In November, the parties each sought summary judgment on the remaining claim, and Magistrate Judge Susan Hightower recommended rejecting both ...