Tag Archives: UDRP

Fri 15th February 2013
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Huffington Post Files 2 UDRP For 21 Domain Names - The Huffington Post has filed 2 separate UDRP’s seeking 21 typo domains both filed with the National Arbitration Forum In the first case Huffington Post (HP) is seeking 19 domain names (case no 1485082):   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Gucci Wins The Rights to 129 Domain Names In One UDRP - Talk about getting a bang for your buck Gucci just won the rights to 129 domain names in one UDRP The domain names were registered with three different registrars but owned by many different registrants listed as: Andrea Hubner of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China; Beijing Harmony Software Co.Ltd., jiang wang of Beijing, China; brian miller, Pornsawang Chotima of Hefei, Anhui, China; Domain Whois Protection Service, Whois Agent of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China; Jie Zhou, Jayzhou, Hi to every day in Zhengzhou ... read more ...
 
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City Of Providence Awarded ProvidencePolice.com A Domain It Let Drop & Sold On Namejet.com - The City of Providence in Providence, RI, USA; and the Providence Police Department (“Complainant”), just was awarded the domain name providencepolice.com a domain that it used to own, and was won in a NameJet.com Auction back in  July 15, 2012. The panel rejected the argument of the domain holder that PROVIDENCE POLICE is not a registered trademark.” Here are the facts and findings of the one member UDRP panel: “Complainant initially owned the disputed domain name beginning in February ... read more ...
 
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Trademark Holder Kanal, Inc Loses Bid To Obtain Kanal.com In UDRP - A three member panel UDRP panel has just rejected the Complaint by Kanal, Inc. on the domain name kanal.com. Complainant is a New York corporation that is the registrant of the U.S. trademark KANAL, registration number 4,220,349, for advertising and business management consultancy services. Complainant was incorporated in 2005, but claims common-law rights in the KANAL mark dating back to August 9, 2002, based upon prior use of the mark by Gaurrav Kanal, the incorporator of Kanal, Inc., who transferred ... read more ...
Tue 12th February 2013
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Joan Collins Files UDRP For The Domain Name JoanCollins.com - Joan Collins, a movie and television actress who starred in Dynasty and the author of over 10 books just filed a UDRP to get the domain name JoanCollins.com Ms. Collins full name is Joan Henrietta Collins Gibson. Joan Collins official site is Joancollins.net.  Ms. Collins sister Jackie, who is also an author, owns the domain name JackieCollins.com The complaint for JoanCollins.com, was filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The domain name is showing an original registration ... read more ...
Fri 8th February 2013
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UDRP Roundup: China’s Sohu Gets Control Of Sohu.Tv: Wells Fargo Gets 31 Typos - TheAsian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre  just gave the domain name Sohu.tv to Beijing Sohu Internet Information in a UDRP decision. The domain holder didn’t respond The domain name is question was registered back in 2005. Sohu  was founded in 1996 and the trademarks were registered as early as 1999.   Sohu network was selected as 1998 and 1999 Top 10 Chinese Internet Networks by China Internet Information Center. The one member panel said in awarding the domain. Google+Michael ... read more ...
Wed 6th February 2013
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Tumblr files 9 cybersquatting complaints - Blogging platform cracks down on cybersquatters. Blogging service Tumblr has filed 9 separate cybersquatting complaints in the last two weeks. The complaints, filed under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy with World Intellectual Property Organization, cover typos of its main Tumblr.com domain name. The domains include: tumlr.com tubmlr.com tumbllr.com tublr.com tumbl.com tumblor.com tmblr.com wwwtumblr.com tumbr.com The domains all show different owners ... read more ...
Tue 5th February 2013
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Vertical Axis Loses UDRP on The Typo pheonixcontact.com After Trying To Give It Up - The Ham Brothers, Vertical Axis just lost a UDRP on the typo pheonixcontact.com to Phoenix Contact GmbH Co. KG of German. As a UDRP the case is a slam dunk for the International trademark holder. However the case serves as a cautionary tale for those domain holders that believe  that all they have to do is give up a questionable trademark infringing domain once they get the C D letter, that sometimes that strategy doesn’t work and you wind up with a UDRP decision against you. Before the UDRP ... read more ...
Fri 1st February 2013
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Manwin Hit With UDRP On The Domain Name Xart.com - Manwin International the owner of some of the most visited adult sites on the net, including Youporn.com and PornHub.com, which has filed a couple of  UDRP of their own as a complainant, has just been hit with a UDRP on a domain name they own, Xart.com While the complainant of the UDRP is not showing up yet,  I found one trademark on the term Xart in the US Trademark database, and it was just filed in November 2012, by Click Here LLC of  Malibu, California for use as Adult entertainment. The domain ... read more ...
Thu 31st January 2013
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Two Parked Pages: McLaren.net Lost In A UDRP; McLaren.biz Saved in UDRP - In two separate UDRP decision are out today, one on the domain name McLaren.net the other on the domain name McLaren.biz, the two separate UDRP panels awarded one of the domains and refused to transfer the other to the same complainant, Of course the most famous trademark holder of the term “Mclaren”, is the car maker, but they didn’t bring the complaints. Instead the complaints were brought by McLaren Health Care Corporation whose federally registered trademark was just issued last year: Complainant ... read more ...
 
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McLaren wins McLaren.net, loses McLaren.biz domain disputes - Health care company files a bad case against someone named McLaren. McLaren Health Care Corporation has won a UDRP for McLaren.net while losing one for McLaren.biz. In the case of McLaren.net, the owner of the domain didn’t submit a formal response to the UDRP. He claimed his last name was McLaren, but without providing proof nor a formal response, the panel found against him. The respondent noted that he received the complaint over Christmas and did not have time ... read more ...
Wed 30th January 2013
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Best Selling Author Kevin Trudeau Saves 18 Year Old Domain Trudeau.com From UDRP - The domain name of a common last name Trudeau.com was saved in a UDRP today. How common is the name “Trudeau”? Consider that  Pierre Trudeau was twice the prime minster of Canada and hat the domain holder is the best selling author Mr. Kevin Trudeau and that the founder of the company filing the complaint was a Mr. Joseph-Arthur Trudeau. The domain name Trudeau.com was registered on October 11, 1995. Yes 1995. So this domain is 18 years  old which could be a record for the age of a domain ... read more ...
Tue 29th January 2013
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Why Did It Take 12 Years For This Trademark Holder To File & Win A UDRP? - The Complainants Columbia Insurance Company of Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America; and H.H. Brown Shoe Company, Inc. of Greenwich, Connecticut, United States of America, just won a UDRP on the domain name carolinaboots.com. The trademark holder didn’t own a trademark on the term “carolina boots” but owned a trademark on the term CAROLINA which covered shoes and boots. The trademark holder registered the domain name carolinashoe.com on August 13, 1999, but didn’t register the domain ... read more ...
 
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Supermodel Cindy Crawford Wins The Domain CindyCrawford.com In A UDRP - Cindy Crawford whose full name is Cynthia Ann Crawford ,won the rights to the domain name CindyCrawford.com in a UDRP decision handed down today, by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Now that the decision is out its clear that the Supermodel never owned the domain, despite that the whois for many years showed her as the owner of the domain, and that the domain was pointed to Ms. Crawford’s site which is at Cindy.com It seems like Ms. Crawford was fine with the registration while ... read more ...
Fri 25th January 2013
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GameTruck.com Just Bought in 2012 For A “Significant Sum” Saved In UDRP - Game Truck Licensing, LLC, of Tempe, Arizona, just lost a UDRP on the domain name GameTruck.com in a decision handed down by the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (WIPO) The decision is interesting because although the domain name was originally registered before the complaintant’s trademark was applied for, the domain holder just bought the domain name through DomainAdvisors.com in 2012,  for a “for a significant sum” Here are the relevant facts and findings by the three member panel: Complainant ... read more ...
Wed 23rd January 2013
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Guy files UDRP opposite his brother - Something tells me these guys didn’t get together for Christmas this year. You know familial relations have hit a new low when you filed a UDRP against your brother. That’s what happened in a recent case filed with National Arbitration Forum. Reed Bousada owns an interior design company. According to his complaint for the domain name Bousada.com, it looks like his brother Jay registered Bousada.com and let him use it for his business for a while. Something happened ... read more ...
Tue 22nd January 2013
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Capitol Music Wins UDRP & Gets Back The Domain It Lost in 2010: CapitolMusicGroup.com - Complainant Capitol Records, LLC d/b/a Capitol Music Group (“Complainant”),  gained control of the domain name capitolmusicgroup.com in a UDRP that is owned until 2010 when it was “inadvertently deleted.” The opinion doesn’t discuss how one of the largest music company’s on earth just “inadvertently deleted” the domain name of its company, but the panel seemed to award the domain name not due to the domain holder parking the domain, but for not using the domain name. Here are the ... read more ...
Mon 21st January 2013
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SelectHealth Loses UDRP On Parked Domain SelectHealth.com - SelectHealth, Inc. of Murray, Utah just lost a UDRP on a direct match domain of its trademark SelectHealth.com The one member panel noted that the domain name was registered long before the trademark was filed, however the panel also noted that for at least some time the domain was used in bad faith, as the domain name was parked, the domain holder offered to sell it to the trademark holder for $30K and appeared for a time that the domain holder may have lifted some copyrighted material off the complainant ... read more ...
 
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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 ...
Fri 18th January 2013
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Government Of Monaco Files UDRP Against MonteCarloVodka.com Made In France - Here’s an interesting UDRP filing, the Government of Monaco, officially; Gouvernement de la Principauté de Monaco SAM Marques de l’Etat de Monaco has just filed a UDRP against the domain name MonteCarloVodka.com. Monte Carlo is the capital of Monaco Monte Carlo Vodka is made in Cognac France and the Owners of the brand state that the inspiration for the Monte Carlo name came from the famous city of Monte Carlo in Monaco. Monaco seems to be not impressed or amused  and has filed a UDRP with ... read more ...
 
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Finally A UDRP Panel Gets The Domain Aftermarket Finding RDNH On ColdFront.com - Mr Schwartz feel free to add Personally Cool Inc. of New York, USA to your list of companies found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name ColdFront.com The domain, as indicted in the title to the post, is owned by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration Inc. which was as always represented by John Berryhill, Pennsylvania, USA. Here are the only two takeaways you need to know from this case. Personally Cool, Inc, get a trademark in 2009, Name Administration registers the ... read more ...
Thu 17th January 2013
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Insurance Company W/ 30 Billion In Policies Loses UDRP For MidlandInsurance.com - Midland National Life Insurance Company brought this URDP on the domain name midlandinsurance.com which was owned by ItemWire / Edwin Sherman (and represented by Zak Muscovitch of The Muscovitch Law Firm. Its a pretty interesting case which seemed to turn on that the domain holder actually owned a couple of hundred domains just like the at issue. Trademark holder have tried on numerous occasions to use the number of domains registered by the domain holder against them asking panels to find consider ... read more ...
Wed 16th January 2013
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Another UDRP “Win”: TM Holder Failed To Register The Domain Of It New Product: xboxfitness.com - A couple of days ago we wrote about several UDRP decisions all involving famous trademarks and or common typo’s of them and I blamed the trademark holder for the problem. Today comes another UDRP decision that points out what I was talking about. This case involved the domain names xboxfitness.com and xboxfitness.net Here is part of the opinion of the one member panel that awarded the domains to Microsoft: “”Complainant contends that it announced its newest motion controller for the XBOX at ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: a initial loyal laches UDRP decision - National Arbitration Forum panel finds case should be barred based on laches. The doctrine of laches bars bringing a claim after an unreasonable delay in a way that unduly hurts the opposing party. Laches started creeping into UDRP cases over the past couple years. But panels usually mention it as part of what led them to their conclusion. Now a three person panel has decided a case based entirely on laches. This is a big deal as there is now a big precedent to point ... read more ...
Tue 15th January 2013
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UDRP: Texaco Gets Control Of Texaco.net; Google Gets GoogleMap.com - Quite a few UDRP rulings out this morning in favor of large public companies and some huge brands. The better question to ask is how did these domain not get registered by the companies in the first place and how secondly what took the companies so long to go after them Texaco won its UDRP on the bang on domain Texaco.net. Texaco.net has a most recent original registration date of 2008 but according to domaintools.com has an original registration date of 1997 Google won its UDRP for GoogleMap.com ... read more ...