The narrative ends in 2008 with Nissan Motors attempting to "obtain a Federal Trademark Registration for computers and computer peripherals among other classes of goods and services" in an apparent attempt to create another line of attack. Nissan Motors applied in 2007 and were registered in 2013. Wikipedia says that Nissan Motors has dropped its claim on the Nissan.com domain name, and uses nissanusa.com instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_vs._Nissan_Compu...

More detail here:

https://namecorp.com/nissan-com-a-20-year-battle-of-david-vs...

I'll venture a guess that the submitter found it interesting when reading a recent HN comment [1] and wanted to share.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15919242

I dont think there is anything new. This shows up frequently it seems.