Tag Archives: anticybersquatting

Mon 8th July 2013
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United Press International sues after losing UDRP - Company that lost UDRP in May files cybersquatting lawsuit. United Press International, commonly known simply as UPI, has filed an in rem cybersquatting lawsuit (pdf) for the domain names UPIPhoto.com and UPIPhoto.org. The company lost a UDRP for upiphoto.com in May. A World Intellectual Property Organization ruled that the registrant of the domain, which goes by the name United Photographers International, had legitimate rights or interests in the domain and had ... read more ...
Fri 7th September 2012
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Libya loses anticybersquatting lawsuit - Libya and its embassy lose a domain name lawsuit that started well before Gaddafi’s overthrow. A federal district court yesterday handed down a ruling in a very interesting cybersquatting case, and much of the interest lies in who the plaintiff was: Libya. Back in 2006 The Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and the Embassy of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya filed suit against Ahmad Miski for cybersquatting. (After the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi’s government, ... read more ...
Thu 10th May 2012
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ConnectedWorld.com UDRP challenged in court - Case filed in Arizona to halt transfer of domain name. A Texas man has filed a suit for declaratory and injunctive relief to halt the transfer of ConnectedWorld.com, a domain name he lost in a recent UDRP decision. In the suit (pdf), Jeffrey Smith claims he has been working on a social network for eldercare since 2008. When the domain name ConnectedWorld.com came up for auction last year, he paid $7,100 to acquire the domain name. Earlier this year, Specialty Publishing ... read more ...
Mon 15th August 2011
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Kohler Files Cybersquatting Lawsuit Against Repeat Offenders - After paying off cybersquatters, Kohler says it got burned. Plumbing fixtures giant Kohler has filed an anticybersquatting lawsuit against a company that it had already paid to stop registering its trademarks as domain names. The federal district suit was filed against DomainJet, Inc, Jack Sun, and one or more of the company’s employees. According to Kohler, it approached the defendants after it noticed they registered Kohlerco.in. The defendants demanded $1,000 ... read more ...
Tue 29th March 2011
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Sylvan Learning Sues Franchisee Gripe Site - Company says former franchisee created site to defame it. Tutoring and SAT test prep franchisor Sylvan Learning has sued the domain name SylvanFranchiseIssues.com for violating the anti-cybersquatting act. The company alleges (pdf) the site was set up by a former franchisee in which it is involved in litigation. Finding the alleged owner of the site was no small feat. The suit details Sylvan Learning’s attempts to track down the owner, starting with an inquiry ... read more ...
Tue 14th December 2010
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After Losing UDRP, Complainant Sues to Get FirstQuote.com - Earlier this year a workers compensation insurance company that has a trademark for 1stQuote lost a UDRP for the domain name FirstQuote.com. On the balance, the panel found that the domain name owner registered it due to the generic nature of the domain name. Now the complainant is taking the matter to the courts, filing an in rem case (pdf) against the domain name FirstQuote.com. Interestingly, the UDRP was filed by Aspen Holdings, Inc, while the lawsuit was filed ... read more ...
Tue 10th August 2010
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AntiCybersquatting Lawsuit Filed Against ChicagoRestaurant.com - Shunned by UDRP, former domain owner takes his case to court. After losing a UDRP case for the domain name ChicagoRestaurant.com, Chicago Restaurant Entertainment Guide, Inc., has filed an in rem lawsuit against the domain name alleging cybersquatting. Before you yell “that’s a generic!”, you should know that this domain name was allegedly stolen. The plaintiff had registered the domain and kept the whois email in the name of a technology service provider. ... read more ...
Mon 14th June 2010
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Yahoo Settles Lawsuit and Gets Flicker.com Domain Name - Yahoo now has Flicker.com for Flickr.com web site. As Michael Berkens pointed out today, Yahoo now owns the domain name Flicker.com. But this wasn’t your typical domain name sale. It was actually the culmination of year long anti-cybersquatting lawsuit brought against the Flicker.com owner AshantiPLC, which is owned in part by domain investor Sahar Sarid. Yahoo’s lawsuit against the Ashanti was filed in July 2009. Yahoo alleged that the defendants purchased ... read more ...