Tag Archives: legal rights objection

Tue 24th September 2013
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.Axis TLD appears passed after WIPO decision - WIPO decides not to accept late response to objection. World Intellectual Property Organization has made a determination that it will not accept a late response to a Legal Rights Objection against .axis, thereby effectively killing off Saudi Telecom Company’s bid for the top level domain. Axis Communications AB filed the objection against the .axis application. Saudi Telecom then submitted its response to the objection too late. This resulted in ICANN Ombudsman ... read more ...
Fri 16th August 2013
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Here’s Del Monte’s WEIRD lawsuit to overturn .delmonte decision - Del Monte International uses cybersquatting and UDRP rules in attempt to overturn .delmonte objection. Yesterday I wrote about Del Monte International (DMI) Gmbh’s lawsuit against Del Monte Corporation (DMC) after the latter won its objection to the former’s application for the .delmonte top level domain. The court has now published the complaint (pdf). On the surface, I understand the complaint. DMI is trying to argue that the World Intellectual Property Organization ... read more ...
Thu 15th August 2013
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Donuts beats the third conform code in tip turn domain disputes - Coach, Inc. lost its objection to Donuts’ .coach application. New TLD applicant Donuts has now successfully defended itself against three fashion brands in Legal Rights Objections over top level domain applications. After beating The Limited and Express, the company can add Coach to its list. Coach, Inc., a $15 billion (market cap) company known for its purses, is the only other applicant for .coach. By filing a Legal Rights Objection, it hoped to win the string ... read more ...
Mon 12th August 2013
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Scripps Networks loses second new TLD objection, this one for .diy - Scripps learns that DIY, like the word Food, is generic. Scripps Networks has lost its second legal rights objection against a top level domain name application, this time losing .diy. It previously lost an objection for .food. Scripps, which owns home improvement media company DIY Network, filed the complaint against Google. Scripps and Google are the only two applicants for the domain name. Panelist Scott Blackmer determined that the term “DIY” is generic, standing ... read more ...
Tue 6th August 2013
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Del Monte v. Del Monte: initial new TLD conflict to be upheld - Objector wins .delmonte Legal Rights Objection. If you look at the list of filed Legal Rights Objections for new top level domains, only a few stand out as plausible cases. One of those was Del Monte Corporation v. Del Monte International GmbH for .delmonte. Now that we have the details, it’s not surprising that this was a close case. Del Monte International GmbH is a licensee of Del Monte Corporation’s trademarks for Del Monte. Yet the former applied for .delmonte, ... read more ...
Mon 5th August 2013
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Now.com owners Starbucks (HK) Limited loses brawl over .now - Company that owns now.com loses the first of many objections it filed over the .now top level domain. IPTV company Starbucks (HK) Limited has lost its legal rights objection against One.com A/S’ application for the .now top level domain name. Starbucks, which is not affiliated with the coffee chain, owns the second level domain name Now. It’s also a rival applicant for .now and filed legal rights objections against all five competing applicants. The fact that ... read more ...
Mon 29th July 2013
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Gmail vs. Snail Mail: Google wins plea by USPS - USPS’ challenge to Google over .mail top level domain is denied. Last week, a World Intellectual Property Organization panelist delivered some bad news to the The United States Postal Service: its challenge to Amazon.com’s application to run the .mail top level domain was denied. Now the group’s challenge to Google’s bid to run .mail has also been returned to sender. The USPS suggested that it has some sort of rights to the term “mail”, in part because ... read more ...
Thu 25th July 2013
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Trademark frontrunner TLDDOT GmbH loses .GMBH objection - Company that trademarked .GMBH loses legal rights objection to competing applicant. TLDDOT GmbH, an applicant for the .gmbh domain name that has tried to “frontrun” the new TLD process with trademarks, has lost a legal rights objection against competing applicant InterNetWire Web-Development GmbH. TLDDOT’s objection was quite amazing, really. The company basically told the panel that it had filed trademarks and starting marketing .gmbh early on, so it should ... read more ...
 
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.Song and .YellowPages new TLD objections denied - Two more objections fail, bringing total to 18. World Intellectual Property Organization panelists have denied two more Legal Rights Objections to new top level domain name applications. The latest failed objections are for .song and .yellowpages. Of the 18 determined cases so far, the objectors have lost in each of them. That has a lot to do with panelists and applicants sniffing out “trademark frontrunning” in which an entity applied for (and gained, in some ... read more ...