Tag Archives: URS

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 ...
Tue 19th August 2014
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Registrant of 4,000+ .email domain names faces ascent authorised problems - Yoyo.email claims it registered trademark-matching .email domain names for a legitimate fair use. Most National Arbitration Forum panels have disagreed. You’ve probably never heard of Yoyo.email before, but it is one of the biggest individual registrants of new top level domain names in a single TLD. The company registered over 4,000 .email domain names. The problem for Yoyo.email is that a large number of these domain names match famous trademarks, such as dunkindonuts.email, ... read more ...
Mon 18th August 2014
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Porsche loses Porsche.social URS to designed fan site - Porsche.social is just a parked page, but its owners claim to be creating a free site for Porsche enthusiasts. Car company Porsche has lost a Uniform Rapid Suspension cybersquatting case it brought against the San Jose, California owner of Porsche.social. Interactiv Corporation told the URS panel that it plans to use the domain name for a free community for Porsche car enthusiasts and will put a disclaimer on every webpage that it is not affiliated with or authorized ... read more ...
Mon 11th August 2014
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RMIT University Loses URS On RMIT.Education, To A Parked Page With Links To It - RMIT University of Melbourne, Australia lost its bid to get the domain name RMIT.education suspended through a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding. Its a pretty amazing finding in that the  domain holder didn’t even respond to the URS, Complainant had a valid trademark, and the domain name  is parked and contains links to the school, on the parked page. According to the opinion the fault for decision may lay with the attorney for the School who represented it in the proceeding Here are ... read more ...
Sun 10th August 2014
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Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Wins Another URS On Hello.Photo - Frank Schillings North Sound Names has won another Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) on the domain name Hello.Photo to Complainant, HOLA S.L. of Madrid, Spain, who has trademarked “HELLO!”, “in one or more countries”. John Berryhill, represented North Sound Names. Omar Haydar, the examiner found: The Respondent has registered the domain name , and is the owner of many other domain names, many containing similar commonly used generic terms, purchased primarily for the purpose of resale. Complainant ... read more ...
Thu 7th August 2014
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Principal Financial Loses URS On Principal.Guru - Principal Financial Services,just lost a Uniform Resolution Proceeding on the domain name Principal.Guru The company filed a separate URS on the domain names principal.services principal.center Which case has not been decided yet but I would not expect that to go any better for Principal than this URS. The record shows Respondent’s use of the disputed domain name was to host a webpage containing an HTML link that reads, “This domain name is for sale!” along with a stock image. Complainant contends ... read more ...
Sun 6th July 2014
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Have Trademark Holders Given Up On The URS? Last 17 Disputes Filed, 15 Were UDRP’s - Have trademark holders given up on the Uniform Resolution Service? The URS is something that trademark holders and their representative pushed for at ICANN for years. A cheap, quick take down on obviously trademark infringing new gTLD domain registrations. Although the URS is exactly that a much cheaper and quicker process than a UDRP, if a trademark holder wins a URS the domain registration is simply suspended for the term of the registration and becomes available for re-registration once it drops. Since ... read more ...
Wed 25th June 2014
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Sci.Technology Suspended in URS “Sci” is not a Generic Term though Rather a Trademark” - The new gTLD domain name sci.technology was ordered suspended by a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) examiner. The Complainant SANMINA CORPORATION of San Jose, California filed the URS complaint based on its U.S. Trademark Registration issued June 2, 1992, on the term “SCI” (the “Trademark”). The Trademark is for “manufacturing of electrical, electronic, electromechanical and mechanical products to the order and specification of others”, and “design and development of electrical, electronic, ... read more ...
Tue 17th June 2014
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Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Hit With Another URS On Two .Link Domains - Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names is the subject of a second URS filing over two domain names it registered of Uniregistry strings,  aix.link and db2.link. North Sound Names already successfully defended its first URS case filed against it, on Finn.Link North Sound reportedly registered some 43,000 domain names in extensions owned by Uniregistry with .Link domains being heavily represented. Although the Complainant on the URS filed today is not listed I would not be surprised to see it being ... read more ...
Mon 16th June 2014
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14 Year Old eMoney.com Hit With UDRP; URS Filed On Sci.Technology - The owner of the domain name eMoney.com has just gotten hit with a UDRP. The domain name according to DomainTools.com has an original registration date of 2000 and the registrant/administrative contact still as it was in 2000, a “E Will”. The domain name current seems to be directing into an advertising program as opposed to going to a site or a PPC or landing page. The domain was until December of 2013 according to screenshots.com parked for many years. The complainant of  the UDRP is not listed. There ... read more ...
 
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This Is Why There Needs To Be A Penalty For Someone Bringing A Groundless URS - Talk about a waste of time and money. You probably will never find a better case for providing a penalty for someone who brings a groundless Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding than this one. As you may know unlike the UDRP which at least carries a potential “penalty” in the form of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) a URS carries no similar “penalty” In this case the URS involved a three letter generic new gTLD domain. The domain name Bas.Graphics was registered by QA Graphics of ... read more ...
Mon 26th May 2014
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Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Wins Its 1st URS On Finn.Sexy - Finn.no AS of Oslo, Norway just lost a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) on the the domain name Finn.sexy. The domain name is owned by North Sound Names which is a company associated with Frank Schilling, who also owns Uniregistry and of course John Berryhill, Esq represented the domain holder. This is the first URS case decided that involved North Sound Names and the 1st URS represented by John Berryhill. North Sound Names is the company that was set up to register New gTLD’s of Uniregistry. North ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling defends URS opposite indifferent .sexy domain name - Uniform Rapid Sexy. When Frank Schilling released his first handful of new top level domain names he also held back tens of thousands of second level domain names for himself. These were registered in the name of North Sound Names. Since the domains aren’t just held back as premiums for registration but are actually registered, they are subject to URS proceedings. Schilling has successfully defended the first such proceeding against one of his domains, a URS for ... read more ...
Thu 1st May 2014
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Wolfram wins .CEO URS brawl on second try - This time the case computes. Search and data company Wolfram has won a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) case for Wolfram.ceo…on the second try. It lost the first case because it filed the case as Wolfram Research, Inc. The panelist noted that the trademarks mentioned in the case were owned by Wolfram Group LLC. So Wolfram refiled the case as Wolfram Group LLC and won this time around. The registrant, Andrew Davis, claimed that Wolfram is a common name. The panel didn’t ... read more ...
Wed 23rd April 2014
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Meet The 1st New gTLD Serial Cybersquatter, As Farris Nawas of Austin Loses His 3rd URS - The National Arbitration  Forum has suspended the domain name registration for SPANX.clothing after an examiner in a Uniform Rapid Suspension proceeding  (URS) found the registrant,  Farris Nawas of Austin Texas infringed on the trademark of Spandex. Since the only business line Spandex is involved in is clothing, it is the no-brainer type of registration that the URS was designed for. This marks the 3rd time that Farris Nawas has lost a URS on a new gTLD domain name in just 5 weeks. Mr. Nawas ... read more ...
Mon 14th April 2014
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Wolfram doesn’t use mathematics in URS dispute - A lot of brain power missed the connection. Wolfram Research, Inc. has lost a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) case for mathematica.guru and wolfram.ceo, and the case is noteworthy for a couple reasons. First, the domain names were owned by two different people. One of the whois records has privacy on it, and companies often file UDRP cases against domains that they think the same person owns. But in this case the domains were at two different registrars, which makes ... read more ...
Thu 10th April 2014
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URS Denied On Aeropostale.uno - A Uniform Rapid Suspension examiner, Alan L. Limbury, has denied the complainant of the clothing company, Aeropostale Procurement Company, Inc The domain name aeropostale.uno “Complainant here submitted with its complaint copies of the certificates of registration of seven United States AEROPOSTALE trademarks, four of which are in the name R. H. Macy Co., Inc., two of which are in the name Aeropostale West, Inc., and one of which is in the name Aeropostale, Inc. Complainant submitted no evidence ... read more ...
Fri 4th April 2014
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Mittal.CEO Suspended After URS; No Site Was Up & Registrants Name Wasn’t Mittal - Hello, I am the Andrew Davis mentioned in this case, whose Domain Name (Mittal.CEO) was suspended. I would like to say, that even if the end result of this case was that I was found in violation of Trademark laws, I have no problem in accepting such a decision. However, I feel that the reasoning used by the Examiner to come to this conclusion, was very one-sided, in favour of the Complainant (ArcelorMittal). As far as I’m aware: “The URS requires a heavier burden of proof by mandating ... read more ...
Fri 28th March 2014
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Wow That Was Quick; As .CEO Launches Today 1st URS Filed Mittal.ceo - The 1st Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) was filed on a .CEO domain name, on the same day the new gTLD .CEO went live for General Availability . The domain name is Mittal.ceo Mittal is a popular surname in India and Wikipedia.org, even has an post  on it. Although the Complainant is not yet listed, we should note that there is  large steel company by the name of, Mittal Steel Company now part of ArcelorMittal which is a publicly traded company (NYSE: MT) headquartered in Rotterdam, Netherlands The ... read more ...
 
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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 ...
Thu 20th March 2014
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1st URS Denied: Panel Gets It Right & Denies URS on Branson.Guru - For the first time a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) complaint has been denied. URS panelist Douglas M. Isenberg Denied Virgin Enterprises URS on the domain name Branson.Guru. The domain was registered by Lawrence Fain of Chicago who didn’t even bother to respond Here is the decision of the panel: Complainant has provided the following explanatory text, in toto, in its Complaint (subject to the 500-word limit specified in paragraph 1.2.7 of the URS): The Complainant is Virgin Enterprises Limited ... read more ...
 
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Richard Branson is initial URS loser - Panel denies claim to Branson.guru. Last month I wrote about how billionaire Richard Branson had filed some cases under the new Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) policy to suspend domains that cybersquatted his name and brands. One case that hadn’t been filed at the time was for Branson.guru. A decision has been handed down and Branson has the distinction of being the first person to lose a URS case. Branson’s lawyers (actual counsel for his company Virgin) made ... read more ...
Fri 14th March 2014
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Dana.Holdings Gets Suspended in URS Decision - The public company, Dana Holding Corporation (NYSE: DAN) just won a URS it filed on the domain name dana.holdings. The domain name was suspended based on the URS decision Findings of Fact: Dana Holding Corporation (NYSE: DAN) is a publicly traded Fortune 500 company based in Maumee, Ohio; Dana Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dana Holding Corporation. Dana Limited is the owner of the federally registered trademark DANA (U.S. Registration Numbers 4459800, 1190470, 856983, and 1200853) for ... read more ...
Wed 12th March 2014
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Dior Files URS On Dior.Clothing & I’m Going To Blame The Company For This One - A URS wwas filed by designer fashion house Christian Dior on the domain name Dior.clothing yesterday. I’m going to blame the company for this one. No one likes to pay for insurance just like no one wants to spend money to register defensive domains, but if your in business you need to do certain things and make good business decisions. So while I don’t expect any brand (although some did) to go and register or block hundreds of new gTLD’s in every possible extension, domains that are bang on ... read more ...
Tue 11th March 2014
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Quickest Legal Action On A Domain Registration? bbva.careers Hit With URS 5 Days After Registration - In what maybe the quickest action filed by a trademark holder against a domain holder, the domain name bbva.careers has been hit with a  URS 5 Days After Registration. The domain name bbva.careers was registered on March 5th on the last day of EAP for many times general availability rates which would have gone into effect the following day on March 6th. The URS was filed today on March 10th BBVA is a publicly traded financial company (BBVA),  Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A with a market cap ... read more ...