800-JR Cigar, Inc., more commonly known as JR Cigar or JRCigars.com, is one of the largest
wholesale
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rs and
retail
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ers of
cigar
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s, cigar related products and
pipe tobacco
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in the
United States
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. The company originated as a cigar shop in
Manhattan
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but now chiefly operates through
on-line
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and
catalog
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sales; however, the company maintains three retail outlets in
North Carolina
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, two in New Jersey (Whippany with Executive Offices, and Paramus), as well as a retail locations in Manhattan (closed), Washington DC, and Detroit, MI.
The company previously traded on the
NASDAQ
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under the trading symbol JRJR after an
initial public offering
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in 1997. The
Spanish
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company Altadis S.A. acquired a 51% controlling interest in the company in 2003. The company continues to operate as a subsidiary of Altadis.
The company has been prosecuting significant
litigation
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against
GoTo.com
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(Now Overture / Yahoo - The first to bring on Pay for Placement on a search engine) on the issue of whether the use of a trademark as a paid keyword in search engine advertisement constitutes trademark infringement. To be brief, Goto.com (Overture) was selling keywords such as "JR Cigars", "JR Cigar", and other variations of "JR Cigar" to competing cigar retailers - thus "illegally diverting traffic" from a trademarked name to other sites. In the latest decision,''800-JR Cigar, Inc. v. Goto.com, Inc.'' 437 F. Supp. 2d 273 (D.N.J., July 13, 2006) the court held that GoTo had been making a “use” of the trademark “in commerce”, but concluded that it was unable to grant
summary judgment
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on the issue of infringement, so that a full
trial
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is necessary.
See also
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List of cigar brands
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Famous Smoke Shop
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* Thompson Cigar