Tag Archives: wipo

Mon 2nd September 2013
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Owner of Corediagnostics.in Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - M/s. Core Diagnostics filed UDRP against domain name registered a decade before it was founded. World Intellectual Property Organization panelist Richard Hill has found M/s. Core Diagnostics, owner of CoreDiagnostics.in, guilty of attempting reverse domain name hijacking. The Indian company started its business in 2011 and registered its trademarks in 2012. Still, it filed a UDRP against the owner of corediagnostics.com, who registered the domain name in 2001. The ... read more ...
Tue 27th August 2013
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Kudos to a World Intellectual Property Organization - WIPO’s online reporting functionality beats its competitors. I write a lot of articles bashing decisions made by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panelists in UDRPs. So I think it’s only fair that I give the group props when it’s deserved. The new top level domain name objection process has reminded me how WIPO’s online reporting systems are way, way better than the competition. Three organizations are handling top level domain name application ... read more ...
Sat 24th August 2013
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12 Year Old Dictionary Word, Domain Name, Parlance.com Saved In UDRP - Parlance Corporation lost a UDRP against  Dynamo.com on the domain name parlance.com Of course the domain name is also a dictionary word and the panel found  “the Complaint fails to establish either bad-faith registration or bad-faith use” so the panel should have found Reverse Domain Name Hijacking but didn’t even discuss the issue. Here are the relevant findings by the one member panel: The Complainant alleged that it owns A registered trademark PARLANCE and has used it since at least 1996 ... read more ...
Fri 23rd August 2013
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Russian Registrar Regtime Ltd. Lose Two Legal Rights Objections To PIR’s .OPR & .Verisign’s .KOM - Regtime Ltd. and Legato Ltd of the Russian Federation  just lost two separate Legal Rights Objections at WIPO on the new gTLD strings .OPR and .KOM In The .OPR case the company objected to the Public Interest Registry (PIR) application of .OPR. PIR operates the .Org registry. The second objection was to Verisign’s new gTLD application for .Kom which is the more interesting decision in my opinion. Regtime has functioned as an ICANN-accredited registrar since 2007. Regtime was the original owner ... read more ...
Mon 19th August 2013
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Donuts Beats Back Academy Sports Legal Rights Objection To new gTLD .Academy - Academy, LTD., d/b/a Academy Sports + Outdoors lost is Legal Rights Objection filed against Half Oaks, LLC (a Donuts compny) application for the new gTLD .Academy finding that “the common generic use of the term “academy”, as well as the lack of clear evidence showing widespread public recognition of the Objector’s ACADEMY marks, standing alone, weigh heavily in the Applicant’s favor. In this case, the Panel finds that such considerations must result in rejection of the Objector’s Objection.” The ... read more ...
 
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Biotechnology Industry Organization Loses WIPO Legal Rights Objection On New gTLD .Bio - Biotechnology Industry Organization of Washington, lost its Legal Rights Objection filed against Starting Dot applied for new gTLD .bio. Here are the relevance findings by the one member WIPO panel: A fundamental issue in this proceeding is the appropriate recognition of the word “bio” by different sectors of the public, founded on differences in the basic meaning of the word, and on differences in uses in different parts of the world. From the Objector’s perspective, the word “bio” has ... read more ...
 
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Blue Cross Loses Legal Rights Objection To Block a New gTLD .Blue - Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association just lost a Legal Rights Objection to Afilias Limited new gTLD application for .Blue Here are the relevant findings by the three member WIPO panel: “”The Applicant has not denied that it was aware of the Objector when it lodged the Application. However, on the evidence which has been produced, the Panel has no reason to doubt the Applicant’s assertion that it applied for the .blue gTLD for the purpose of establishing a new registry which would provide ... read more ...
Thu 15th August 2013
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WIPO Denies Another Legal Rights Objection To .Music: Community Trademarks Of Objector “Not Bona Fide” - A WIPO panel has rejected another Legal Rights Objection to the new gTLD .Music . This objection was to Famous Fours application to operate the .Music registry and was filed by another applicant for .Music, DotMusic Limited/Constantinos Roussos. The panel basically found that the community trademarks of the Objector were not bona fide: The Objector filed for registration of its .MUSIC and DOTMUSIC figurative Marks in the European Union on March 5, 2009. Respondent has brought to the Panel’s attention ... read more ...
 
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Grand Theft Auto creator files censure opposite GTA.tv - Take-Two Interactive asks World Intellectual Property Forum to order transfer of GTA.tv. Is this a case of grand theft or a legitimate intellectual property claim? Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc, maker of the popular Grand Theft Auto video game series, has filed a dispute against the owner of GTA.tv claiming the domain is cybersquatted. The current registrant, iCity Corp, registered the domain name in 2010. Neither Archive.org nor Screenshots.com have captured ... read more ...
Mon 12th August 2013
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Scripps Loses Legal Rights Objection To Google’s new gTLD App For .DIY - A WIPO panel has rejected Scripps Networks Legal Rights Objection to Google’s New gTLD application of .diy Here are the relevant findings from the one member panel: The Objector holds United States Registration No. 2457989 (registered June 5, 2001) for DIY. The mark is registered in International Class 042 as a standard-character service mark for “providing a website of information about television programming; news and weather; gardening and landscaping; crafts and hobbies; sewing and quilting; ... 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 ...
Tue 23rd July 2013
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It’s not unequivocally Walmart: Walmart goes after union’s satire site - Retailer files complaint to take over domain names used for parody site. Walmart has filed a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) case with World Intellectual Property Organization against domain names registered by United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. The dispute seeks to take down the web site ReallyWalmart.org and the associated domain names ReallyWalmart.com/.net/.info. ReallyWalmart.org is a self-described parody site set up ... read more ...
 
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True Religion seeks improved domain name by WIPO action - Company files complaint for domain name TrueReligion.com Publicly traded True Religion (NASDAQ: TRLG), maker of premium denim products, has a really long domain name: TrueReligionBrandJeans.com. Without doubt, a lot of fans of the brand type in TrueReligion.com when trying to find its website. So the company has filed a UDRP with World Intellectual Property Organization to try to get the domain name TrueReligion.com. TrueReligion.com was registered back in 1998. It’s ... read more ...
Thu 18th July 2013
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Pinterest Lastest To Lose Legal Rights Objections To .New gTLD .Pin As 3 More Objections Are Thrown Out By Wipo - WIPO has decided three more Legal Rights Objections to New gTLD application and in all three cases the Objector has lost and the New gTLD applicant has won. The cases decided today are: Pinterest’s objection to Amazon’s application for the new gTLD .Pin; Defender Security Company objection to Merchant Law Group’s application to its application for the new gTLD .Home and The Canadian Real Estate Association’s objection to the new gTLD application of Afilias on  .MLS In the decision on .Pin ... read more ...
Tue 16th July 2013
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Just like Express, The Limited loses .Limited new tip turn domain objection - Donuts has scored its second victory against a large fashion brand. The company has successfully defended itself in a Legal Rights Objection brought by Limited Stores, LLC for the top level domain .Limited. It recently won a case brought by Express for .express as well. The .limited case was determined by Robert A. Badgley, who was not the same panelist for the .express objection. Donuts’ application for the .limited domain claims that likely registrants will include ... read more ...
Mon 15th July 2013
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WIPO Panel Denies Constantine Roussos Objection Amazon’s Application For .Tunes - A one member WIPO panel has rejected the objection of Dot Tunes Limited, which is Constantine Roussos company,  to  Amazon’s new gTLD application of .Tunes. Another one of Mr. Roussos  company’s DotMusic Limited  is an applicant for .music and also filed objections to all other applicants for .music Here are the relevant facts and findings by the panel:  “The Objector is the registered proprietor of a European Community Trademark .TUNES in classes 35, 42 and 45 The mark was applied for ... read more ...
Mon 3rd June 2013
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Samsung news site can keep the domain name notwithstanding Adsense ads - Site with Google Adsense ads still may qualify for “non-commercial”, UDRP panel rules. SamsungHub.com, started in 2006, now forwards to SammyHub.com.The owner of SamsungHub.com can keep his domain name, a WIPO panel has ruled in a UDRP brought by tech giant Samsung. Kunal Gangar began using the domain name in 2006. In 2011 Samsung released an app called SamsungHub, so Gangar registered a new domain – SammyHub.com – and redirected SamsungHub.com to it. Although ... read more ...
Thu 16th May 2013
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Mexican hit lenses UDRPs don’t supplement up - Complainant had a weak case but panelist determines it’s not reverse domain name hijacking. WIPO just handed down decisions for two cases involving domains used for selling contact lenses in Mexico. David Guerra Flores filed the cases against Carlos Perez for pupilentes.com.mx and pupilentes.com. Both cases were resolved by panelist Reynaldo Urtiaga Escobar, who determined that Flores did not prove that Perez lacked rights or legitimate interests in the domain names. However, ... read more ...
Tue 2nd April 2013
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Tracy Morgan wins domain name dispute - Comedian Tracy Morgan can now tell jokes at TracyMorgan.com. A WIPO panel has ordered the domain TracyMorgan.com be transferred to the comedian. (Photo: David Shankbone)Comedian Tracy Morgan laughs about a lot of stuff, but not about how he didn’t own the domain TracyMorgan.com. In January I wrote about how the 30 Rock star had filed a UDRP against the owner of TracyMorgan.com. At the time, the parked page on the domain included links such as “Tracy Morgan Comedian”, ... read more ...
Thu 28th March 2013
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MLM association denied Zija.com domain in dispute - Company was founded two years after domain registered. Zija International, a multi-level marketing company that sells nutritional and dietary supplements, has failed to get the domain name Zija.com through a UDRP. The registrant of the domain name registered it in 2002, two years before Zija even existed. He then used the domain name to forward to one of his web sites until 2006, which Zija threatened legal action against him. At that time, the respondent stopped ... read more ...
Tue 12th March 2013
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Afnic (.Fr) Opens Comment Period On Alternative Dispute Resolution For Domains - Afnic the organization that manages the ccTLD’s of .fr ( (France), .re (Reunion Island), .yt (Mayotte), .wf (Wallis and Futuna), .tf (French Southern Territories), .pm (Saint-Pierre and Miquelon) is launching a public consultation about setting up an alternative dispute resolution procedure, in conjunction with WIPO and has opened up the topic for comment. “As part of its assignment to provide a dispute resolution system that is accessible and balanced for right holders and holders of domain ... read more ...
 
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Lawsuit filed to hindrance UrbanHome.com send after UDRP decision - Suit claims WIPO panel was wrong in UrbanHome.com decision. Last week Michael Berkens wrote about a UDRP decision for UrbanHome.com. A WIPO panel ruled that the domain name should be transferred to Urban Home of Oxnard, California. Now the respondent, Technology Online, LLC, has filed a federal lawsuit (pdf) in Nevada to stop the transfer. Technology Online argues that the panel erred in ordering the domain transferred and is asking for declaratory relief. Although ... 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 ...
Fri 1st February 2013
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If ICANN and WIPO can’t approve with WHOIS, who can? - Technically ICANN and WIPO’s whois records aren’t compliant. Since the meltdown of Registerfly.com several years ago, ICANN has continued to promise to better police compliance with the registrar accreditation agreement (RAA), including the WHOIS provisions of the RAA. I have recently heard that one of the clauses of the RAA which ICANN Compliance is looking at is this one: 3.7.7.1 The Registered Name Holder shall provide to Registrar accurate and reliable contact ... read more ...
Mon 3rd December 2012
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Marc Randazza wins UDRP opposite lady he sued final week - Lawyer wins UDRP over his personal names, but battle still looms over family domain names. Last week I wrote about how first amendment attorney Marc J. Randazza had filed a lawsuit against detractor Crystal Cox over a number of domain names she registered. In addition to registering domain names including Marc Randazza’s name, she also registered domain names referring to Randazza’s wife and three-year-old child. Randazza alleges that Cox registered the domain ... read more ...