Tag Archives: intellectual property

Mon 10th February 2014
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How common difference like Pizza, Money, and Shopping finished adult in a Trademark Clearinghouse for new TLDs - The Trademark Clearinghouse for new TLDs is giving some people first dibs on domains like realestate.guru and pizza.restaurant. The .info domain name got seriously gamed when it had its trademark sunrise period in 2001. There was no pre-verification mechanism to determine if trademarks used to claim a .info domain met requirements. As a result, 20,000 sunrise registrations were later deemed invalid. Many more were accepted under rather lax standards. The same thing ... read more ...
Sun 9th February 2014
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ICANN Says Brands Are At Risk of Domain Abuse - Katy Bachman at AdWeek did a piece on ICANN and their statement that brands are at risk of domain abuse. They are warning brands to protect their intellectual property by using the Trademark Clearing House. The article mentions that many brands are not rushing to pay  the $150/year per domain fee to register each brand. From the article: Try to follow this. Icann, the international organization that has begun to roll out hundreds of new generic top level domains over the objections of brands worried ... read more ...
Sat 8th February 2014
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German Court Says Registrars Are Responsible for Content on a Website - A ruling came out of Germany that could make registrars have to do a lot more work to earn their pay. Loek Essers wrote an article today on PC Advisor covering the case of Universal Music vs Key-Systems. A domain name registrar can be held liable for the copyright infringements of a website it registered if it is obvious the domain is used for infringements and the registrar does nothing to prevent it, the Regional Court of Saarbrücken in Germany has ruled. Universal had wanted to prevent unauthorized ... read more ...
Wed 5th February 2014
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10 takeaways from new tip turn domain name morning durations so far - Here are ten things to think about after 15 top level domain names have completed their sunrise periods. 14 of Donuts’ domain names as well as شبكة. have gone through sunrise so far. Only one of the fifteen domains received more than 200 sunrise registrations. Add to that Donuts’ Domain Protect Marks List, and you can argue the number is a bit higher, but still less than 1,000 or 1,500 per domain. Here are my key takeaways: 1. Intellectual property owners ... read more ...
Sat 25th January 2014
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There are 700,000 daily reasons because King.com is perplexing to Crush other diversion developers - King.com tries to explain they are not really looking to crush the competition but rather make sure they are protected. Over the last couple days stories have come out about the maker of the famous Candy Crush Saga game trademarking the word “Candy” for video games and clothing, and they are also looking to trademark the word “Saga”. King made a statement about the Saga situation, King has not and is not trying to stop Banner Saga from using its name. We do not have any concerns that Banner ... read more ...
Wed 22nd January 2014
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Now a Makers of Candy Crush Saga Want to heading a word Saga - On Monday we wrote about King Studios and their trademarking of the word Candy. The company seemed to be going out and trying to enforce the mark even though its still open for opposition at the USPTO.  King also received a trademark for Candy in Europe as well. In article out today on Complex.com Hanuman Welch writes that King  seems to be looking to protect the word “Saga”  The author brings up a good point that King really does not own a lot of other “Candy related” titles, but they ... read more ...
Mon 20th January 2014
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Candy Crush Maker Now Looks To Crush The Competition With Trademark - Sorry, but I see their submitted classes as far more than overly broad, perhaps even completely insane. Actually read everything they want to own the word “candy” for… Apparatus for recording, transmission or reproduction of sound or images; Blank magnetic data carriers and recording discs; Blank magnetic disks, pre-recorded magnetic disks featuring computer games; Compact discs, DVDs and video recordings featuring computer games; Calculating machines, Data processing equipment, namely, ... read more ...
Mon 6th January 2014
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Verisign files obvious focus for automatically formulating Whois use for TLDs - Verisign wants to patent a way to scale creation of whois service for top level domain names. Verisign has filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office related to automatically creating Whois for new top level domain names. The application, 13/746579 (pdf), was filed in January 2013 and published last week. It describes a typical whois system, and then explains that creating whois for a provisioned top level domain name does not scale: With ... read more ...
Fri 25th October 2013
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Verisign creates obvious website, still doesn’t divulge the IP plans - Domain name registry shows off its patent portfolio, but still won’t say how it plans to make money from it. Verisign has created a website dedicated to its patents and released a whitepaper about its intellectual property – but still won’t say how it plans to monetize its IP portfolio. Yesterday the company formally unveiled VerisignPatents.com, a sort of patent marking site that lists all of its patents. For example, under the header “Domain Registry Services”, ... read more ...
Mon 10th September 2012
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Adrian Peterson needs a new lawyer - Mistake ridden domain name complaints cost the player his online identity. Minnesota Vikings player Adrian Peterson needs to get a new lawyer — and not for his criminal issues. He needs new intellectual property lawyers. If your lawyers make a mistake once, perhaps you overlook it. But twice? Back in April Adrian Peterson won a UDRP for the domain name AdrianPetersonOnline.com. But his attorneys at Gant Hicks asked for the domain name registration to be canceled ... read more ...
Wed 29th June 2011
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When a Business Relationship Goes Sour, Make Sure You Own a Domain Name - Another lawsuit shows that domain names are important intellectual property. I’ve written numerous times about web design companies holding a client’s domain name hostage. Here’s another cautionary tale about domain name ownership. A Florida company called StableTracker.com, Inc says that its former outsourced tech team has stolen its intellectual property and its domain name (pdf). StableTracker.com, Inc. says it contracted with the (now) defendants to perform ... read more ...
Wed 1st September 2010
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Cost-Per-Action Search Engine Patent Headed to Auction Block - Patent could potentially target Google and Microsoft. A U.S. patent directed at cost-per-action advertising on search engines as well as cash-back search is headed to the auction block. Sunnyvale, California based AnchorFree Inc. has enlisted ICAP Ocean Tomo to auction off U.S. patent number 7,647,305 (pdf) at its November 11 intellectual property auction in Napa, California. The patent covers two main things. First, it covers charging search ad customers based on ... read more ...
Mon 27th April 2009
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Intellectual Property Group Suggests Protections for New Domains - Implementation Recommendation Team suggests drastic changes to existing protections for IP holders. The Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT), formed by ICANN’s Intellectual Property Constituency, has released its preliminary report (pdf) of suggested safeguards for trademark holders in light of the introduction of new top level domain names. The closed door and controversial group suggested a number of drastic changed from current trademark policy for domain ... read more ...