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Appeal from the United States District Courtfor the District of ArizonaRaner C. Collins, District Judge, PresidingArgued and SubmittedAugust 15, 2007—San Francisco, CaliforniaFiled September 26, 2007Before: Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Michael Daly Hawkins,and Kim McLane Wardlaw, Circuit Judges.Opinion by Judge Hawkins

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Donald M. Falk, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, PaloAlto, California, for the appellants.Paul J. Andre, Perkins Coie LLP, Menlo Park, California, forthe appellee.Bruce Adelstein, The Law Offices of Bruce Adelstein, LosAngeles, California, David Post, I. Herman Stern Professor,James E. Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,for Amici James Boyle, Lauren Gelman, Lawrence Lessig,Declan McCullagh, David Post, Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Mar-tin Schwimmer, Jimmy Wales, and Jonathan Zittrain, in sup-port of the appellants.

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Mark A. Lemley, William H. Neukom Professor, StanfordLaw School, Palo Alto, California, for Amici 38 IntellectualProperty Law Professors and the Electronic Frontier Founda-tion, in support of the appellants.

OPINION

HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:Tim Oey (“Oey”) appeals a preliminary injunction prevent-ing him “from making any comments that could be construedas to disparage upon [The Freecycle Network]’s possibletrademark and logo” and requiring that he “remove all post-ings from the [I]nternet and any other public forums that hehas previously made that disparage [The Freecycle Net-work]’s possible trademark and logo.”

The Freecycle Net-work, Inc. v. Oey

, No. CV 06-173, Order at 5 (May 11, 2006)(emphasis added). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C.§ 1291 and, for the following reasons, vacate the injunctionand remand.

The Freecycle Network (“TFN”) is a nonprofit Arizonacorporation “dedicated to encouraging and coordinating thereusing, recycling, and gifting of goods.” Through its website,http://www.freecycle.org, TFN coordinates the efforts of over3,700 Freecycle groups worldwide. Via the local groups’webpages, individuals can post goods they no longer want. If another member wants the item offered, an exchange isarranged between the parties and the item thus avoids thelandfill.

Although Oey’s wife remains a party to this case, the facts and legalquestions revolve solely around Oey and, accordingly, this opinion refersonly to him.

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