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Tue 13th October 2015
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WIPO Publishes 2014 UDRP Figures & 2015 YTD: 14% of WIPO’s 2015 Cases Are New gTLD's - The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)  released it annual report yesterday for 2014 and Year to Date numbers through September 2015 for cases it decided under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (“UDRP”) Cases filed ins 2014 were up only 2% from 2013,  with 2,634 cases being lodged by trademarks owners claiming abuse of their mark. Country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) – accounted for 13% of all filings in 2014 with 71 national domain registries now designating ... read more ...
Fri 17th April 2015
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Judge denies suit to strike UDRP cases from MySchool.com pleadings - Plaintiff asked judge to forbid information about its two UDRP losses over the same domain to be used in pleadings. United States Magistrate Judge John F. Anderson has denied a motion to strike prior UDRPs from pleadings in a cybersquatting lawsuit filed over MySchool.com. Joseph Carpenter has lost two UDRPs against the domain name MySchool.com. After the second loss, he filed an in rem cybersquatting lawsuit against the domain name MySchool.com. The current owner of the domain, Original Web Ventures, ... read more ...
Mon 26th January 2015
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Poster Boy For Frivolous UDRP Cases: Booked.xyz Guilty Of RDNH: TM Filed 16 Yrs After Domain Was Registered - Booked Ltd of London which owns the domain Booked.xyz and Bookedxyz.com was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name Booked.com in one of the most baseless UDRP cases we have ever read. Its too bad there is not any penalties for those who bring frivolous UDRP cases other than a finding of Reverse Domain Name hijacking which the three member panel rightfully found. The domain owner represented himself in the UDRP which is just silly on its face. The domain Booked.com was ... read more ...
Thu 18th December 2014
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Union Bank loses cases opposite dispute websites - Former customer registered ten domain names to air grievances about the bank. Union Bank has lost three domain name arbitration cases involving an upset former customer. The bank filed three separate actions covering UnionBank.me, unionbancal.co, unionbank.cc, union-bank.co, mufgunionbankna.com, unionbancalcorp.com, unionbancal.net, unionbancal.org, unionbankna.com and unionbanks.net. The domain names were all registered by William Bookout. At one point, his company ... read more ...
Mon 8th December 2014
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Nissan Files 12 Separate URS Cases On New gTLD’s Spending Over 50% The Cost Of What A Block Would Have Cost - Nissan which sold Z.com for $6.8 million dollars a few weeks ago filed 12 separate Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) cases with the National Arbitration Forum over the weekend. For about 3K per brand, or $9K Nissan could have bought a block with Donuts which would have blocked any of new gTLD domain name in these three brands from being registered over all Donuts extensions, which I believe all of these were. Nissan also won a URS on the domain name Nissan.repair today making it a total of 13 URS cases At ... read more ...
 
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Nissan Files 12 Separate URS Cases On New gTLD’s Spending Over 50% The … - Nissan which sold Z.com for $6.8 million dollars a few weeks ago filed 12 separate Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) cases with the National Arbitration Forum over the weekend. For about 3K per brand, or $9K Nissan could have bought a block with Donuts which would have blocked any of new gTLD domain name in these three brands from being registered over all Donuts extensions, which I believe all of these were. Nissan also won a URS on the domain name Nissan.repair today making it a total of 13 URS cases At ... read more ...
Wed 20th August 2014
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INTA Issues 6 Month Bulletin on Results of URS Cases - The International Trademark Association (INTA) issued what it called a 6 month  Bulletin on the results of cases filed under the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) procedure. INTA says that a total of 92 URS cases have been filed to date 88 with the National Arbitration Forum in the United States (NAF) and four with the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC) in Hong Kong. Suspensions have been issued in 71 cases (including one affirmed on appeal, as noted below), versus nine instances ... read more ...
Wed 6th August 2014
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2 really peculiar UDRP cases explain “technological confusion” - Part of brand is in domain names, but you have to look closely for it. I was rather confused a couple months ago when I saw fashion designer Philipp Plein filed UDRPs against peopleincasinos.com and supportpeopleinneed.org. Both sites featured clothing that the sites claimed was authentic Philipp Plein clothing. But what did these domain names have to do with Philipp Plein? Well, take a look at the domain names again: PeoPLEINcasinos.com SupportPeoPLEINneed.org The ... read more ...
Fri 28th March 2014
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Fortune 1000 association loses 2 URS cases - Heartland Payment Systems loses claims to “Heartland” domain names. So far the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) policy for new top level domain names appears to be working. URS was designed to be a faster and cheaper version of UDRP for slam dunk cases of cybersquatting. Since UDRP was meant to be for clear-cut cases as well, the burden of proof is very high in URS cases. Richard Branson was the first to lose a case, for Branson.guru. Now Heartland Payment Systems, ... read more ...
Sat 8th February 2014
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New gTLD Committe Tells ICANN To Consider Appeal Mechanism In String Confusion Cases - The New gTLD Program Committee of ICANN (NGPC) pased a resolution, directing the ICANN President and CEO, to initiate a public comment period on the framework principles of a potential review mechanism to address the perceived inconsistent String Confusion Objection Expert Determinations. The effect of this proposal, and the issue that is likely to be before the NGPC after the close of the public comments, is to consider implementing a new review mechanism in the String Confusion Objection cases ... read more ...
Tue 30th July 2013
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Yahoo gets obvious for prioritizing cybersquatting cases - Patent covers discovering and prioritizing cybersquatting issues. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 8,499,032 (pdf) to Yahoo for a “System and method for compiling a set of domain names to recover”. The invention, which I wrote about when the application was published in 2010, allows a trademark owner to generate a list of potentially infringing domain names. This list is run against network data to prioritize which domain names get ... read more ...
Tue 23rd April 2013
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Domain settlement cases corner adult somewhat in 2012 - …but trail the growth in domain name registrations. National Arbitration Forum (NAF) has released its official numbers for 2012 UDRP cases. Combined with World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) results, the number of UDRP cases filed last year appears to have edged up slightly. NAF reported a total of 2,060 cases for 2012 last year, which was 22 fewer than in 2011. WIPO earlier reported 2,884 cases, up from 2,764 in 2011. Between the two biggest UDRP ... read more ...
Fri 29th March 2013
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WIPO: UDRP 2012: Complainants Win 91%; Parties Settle 20% of Cases - Here are UDRP stats of cases filed under WIPO in 2012: Trademark holders filed a record 2,884 cybersquatting cases covering 5,084 Internet domain names with the WIPO Center under procedures based on the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). This represents an increase of 4.5% over the record established in 2011. Since the UDRP’s launch in December 1999, the WIPO Center has received over 25,500 UDRP based cases, covering some 47,000 domain names in both generic and country code Top ... read more ...
 
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Introducing RDNH.com: a database of retreat domain name hijacking cases - 129 reverse domain name hijacking cases and counting… Today I’d like to introduce you to RDNH.com, a site that provides a database of reverse domain name hijacking cases under UDRP. The site is a “collaboration” between myself, Nat Cohen, and David Lahoti. I say “collaboration” because Nat has been doing most (all) of the work and David’s UDRPSearch.com has been a key data source. As for me, my only collaboration on the project is lending the RDNH.com ... read more ...
Mon 21st January 2013
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Two cases uncover a craziness of RDNH - Two cases, three different view of reverse domain name hijacking. Two recent UDRP cases show the inconsistency of how reverse domain name hijacking (RDNH) is applied. In the first case, Intelligentsia Coffee Tea, Inc. v. Ashantiplc Ltd, the panel found against the complainant in a dispute over Intelligentsia.com. In this decision, two of the three panelists said it is the Respondent’s job to prove RDNH. The majority write: A majority of the Panel notes that Complainant ... read more ...
Thu 3rd January 2013
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WIPO perceived record series of cybersquatting cases in 2012 - UDRP cases hit record at WIPO in 2012. World Intellectual Property Organization received a record number of UDRP cases in 2012. The organization’s web site reports 2,879 cases were filed in 2012, compared to 2,764 in 2011. The cases covered a total of 5,081 domain names. That shouldn’t come as a big surprise. Filings in the first half of the year at both WIPO and rival National Arbitration Forum were up compared to 2011. It’s worth noting that total filings ... read more ...
Tue 28th August 2012
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New Study: Nearly 50% Of All UDRP Cases Decided By NAF Are Decided By 7 Panelists - A new study comissioned by attorney Zak Muscovitch shows that of all the UDRP cases decided by the National Arbitration Forum one of the two organizations that decide almost all UDRP cases, 7 panelist account for 50% of the decisions. The NAF has administered approximately 17,000 disputes since 1999 The study published this morning by DNattorney.com This study is really an update to one done by  in 2010. “In March, 2010, DNattorney.com released a comprehensive study (the Original Study) on the ... read more ...
 
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National Arbitration Forum continues to palm infancy of cases to name panelists - Seven panelists hear nearly half of all NAF UDRP cases. Zak Muscovitch has updated his National Arbitration Forum (NAF) panelist study originally released in 2010. The results published on DNAttorney.com have basically the same conclusion as his original report: the National Arbitration Forum hands most of its caseload to a select group of panelists. Just seven American panelists heard nearly half of all of NAF’s caseload from March 5, 2010 – July 4, 2012. It’s ... read more ...
Thu 9th August 2012
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In The Last Of A Trio Of Cases Already In Federal Court, A UDRP Panel Finally Refuses To Rule - In the last couple of weeks we have cited two UDRP cases in which they domain holder had already filed a federal court action for declaratory judgement and the UDRP panel decided the case anyway. Today a UDRP panel finally did the right thing and passed on ruling on the UDRP based on the pending federal court case in a UDRP on the domain name Triba.com The previous two cases involved the domain name Vanity.com, which ruled in favor of the “trademark holder” despite a federal lawsuit, while  ... read more ...
Wed 4th April 2012
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National Arbitration Forum Says Cases Are Up 18% From 2009 But Down 4% From 2010 - In a press release today the The National Arbitration Forum (NAF),  “announced that a total of 2,082 cases were filed in its domain name dispute resolution program in 2011, up 18% from 2009 (1,759 cases) and down 4% from 2010 (2,177 cases). ” “Since the NAF first case in 1999, nearly 18,000 cases have been filed as of the end of 2011.” “”The following data pertains to the National Arbitration Forum domain name dispute resolution program in 2011 (January 1 to December 31, 2011): “More ... read more ...
Wed 7th March 2012
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Paul Keating gets solitary win in Auto-Owners cases - Panel rules that AutoOwner.com registrant can keep domain name. In January I wrote about how Auto-Owners Insurance filed four UDRP cases against owners of domain names it said infringed its mark. The first two decided cases went in favor of the insurance company, but domain attorney Paul Keating has reversed that trend. Keating successfully defended the registrant of AutoOwner.com. The panel found that the insurance company didn’t show registration and use in bad ... read more ...
Wed 20th July 2011
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A Harvard Law School Professor Publishes A Study Of UDRP Decisions Involving “Fair Use” & Finds Cases Turn On Nationality - A professor from Harvard has just released a 48 page study he conducted on UDRP decision involving “Fair Use” of a trademarked term. You can download the study here (pdf) The study entitled, An Empirical Analysis of Fair Use Decisions under the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy  is authored by David A. Simon a Harvard Law School professor. “For over ten years, the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) has resolved nearly 20,000 domain-name disputes brought before ... read more ...
Mon 13th June 2011
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6 UDRP Cases to Watch - 6 notable UDRP filings this month. Here are a half dozen UDRP cases filed this month to keep an eye on for various reasons. ChrisFarley.com – I’m guessing it is the estate of the late comedian that filed this case. Twiter.com – Twitter files a UDRP against the owner of Twiter.com, a site that clearly tries to trick users who are looking for Twitter.com. IXO.com – I’m always suspicious of filings for three letter domain names. Let’s see what the deal is ... read more ...
Wed 9th February 2011
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UDRP Cases Spike in 2010 - Number of cases filed in 2010 increases thanks largely to brand protection services. The number of Uniform domain-name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP)cases filed at the two largest arbitration providers increased over 25% in 2010 compared to 2009, a Domain Name Wire analysis shows. However, the rate of filing defined as the number of cases divided by the number of registered domains remains near an all time low. World Intellectual Property Forum handled 2,696 cases ... read more ...
Wed 2nd February 2011
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AllState Files 19 UDRP Cases In One Day - Insurance company revs up domain dispute engine. Allstate Insurance Company has filed 19 individual UDRP cases in one day. The 19 cases are current pending compliance review at World Intellectual Property Organization and mostly cover typos. Examples include allostate.com, allsrate.com, and allstaye.com. Other domain names include various financial and insurance products such as allstatefinance.com and allstateglassclaims.com. These new filings are on top of 15 ... read more ...