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Fri 4th September 2009
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Sky Broadcasting Loses Domain Dispute over SkyTravel.com - British Sky Broadcasting fails to convince arbitration panel of rights to SkyTravel.com domain name. Broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting Group has failed to convince a three person World Intellectual Property Organization panel that it should get the domain name SkyTravel.com. The defeat is due in part to one of the arbitration panelist’s personal experiences. Sky operates a travel channel called Sky Travel and owns trademarks related to the name. But the owner ... read more ...
Sun 30th August 2009
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Ta Ta, WIPO. New Candidate for Worst UDRP Decision Ever - Worst UDRP decision ever? Company says Ta Ta to WIPO. An Indian company is taking a domain battle to court after a WIPO domain panelist handed its domain owner to conglomerate TaTa Sons. The domain at issue is OKTaTaByeBye.com, a travel web site based on the colloquial saying “Ta Ta”, as in bye-bye or see you later. OKTaTaByeBye.com is run by a large online travel company that operates MakeMyTrip.com. TaTa Sons stated in its complaint that “the Respondent ... read more ...
Thu 27th August 2009
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Certipost Pays to Settle Domain Dispute - Company pays to end lawsuit brought by VirtualPoint, Inc. Document exchange company Certipost has paid an undisclosed amount to settle a lawsuit brought by VirtualPoint, Inc. over the domain name Certipost.com. VirtualPoint’s owner David Lahoti registered the domain name back in 2000. A couple years later Certipost started. In 2008 Certipost filed a UDRP to get the domain name through WIPO and won in a strange decision. The WIPO panelist decided that, since Lahoti ... read more ...
Tue 25th August 2009
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USU.com Saved, But Panel Doesn’t Consider Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Software company fails to snag USU.com domain. But where’s the beef? A three person panel at WIPO has ruled in favor of the current registrant of USU.com in a domain dispute. However, in a brief opinion, it failed to consider the issue of reverse domain name hijacking. The domain name arbitration case was brought by software company USU AG of Germany, which was represented by Hössle Kudlek Partner, Patentanwälte, Germany. The respondent was represented ... read more ...
Fri 21st August 2009
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Non-Profit Urban Logic Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Arbitrator faults non-profit for harassing domain owner. Palo Alto-based non-profit Urban Logic, Inc. has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a domain dispute at World Intellectual Property Organization. The non-profit uses UrbanLogic.org. But, as you might expect, a number of people looking for the non-profit or sending an email actually type in UrbanLogic.com. UrbanLogic.com is owned by Peter Holland, who ran a consulting business at the domain ... read more ...
Thu 20th August 2009
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For National Car Rental, Green Means Stop Using Your Domain Name - Car rental company gets greedy with domain arbitration. Vanguard Trademark Holdings USA LLC, the trademark affiliate of National Car Rental, has been busy filing domain arbitration cases lately. One of those caught my eye today: GreenMeansGo.com, filed with World Intellectual Property Forum. It caught my eye because “Green Means Go” is a common and generic phrase. Alas, that doesn’t keep a trademark holder from trying to grab the domain. The company actually ... read more ...
Wed 19th August 2009
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Porsche Sets Eyes on Boxter.com - Car company wants Boxter.com (typo) domain name. Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG has filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization to get the domain name Boxter.com. Boxster is one of the company’s popular cars. I remember back in the bubble days earlier this decade it seemed like most cars pulling out of tech company garages in Austin were Boxsters. A couple years later you could buy them on the cheap. Boxter.com is currently a parked page showing ... read more ...
Thu 13th August 2009
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Dispute Resolution: Sandra Bullock, DKB.com, and More - A run down of recent UDRP decisions and case filings. SandraBullock.com: Sandra Bullock has won her case for the domain name SandraBullock.com. DKB.com: Hmm. Deutsche Kreditbank AG has filed a case with World Intellectual Property organization to get the domain name DKB.com. The domain was registered back in 1996 and DKB Data Services, Inc has owned the domain since at least 2001 (the earliest available whois record). Unless something crops up in the case that’s ... read more ...
Wed 12th August 2009
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eSnipe Fails to Snipe Domain Name - SNIPEIT! can’t snipe domain arbitration. Auction sniper software company eSnipe, Inc. of Bellevue, Washington, has failed to snipe the domain name SnipeIt.com through domain arbitration. Either the company doesn’t have strong trademarks dating back to earlier this decade or its lawyer failed to convey them to the arbitration panel. In making no finding of bad faith by registrant Modern Empire Internet, Ltd, the panel wrote: The Complainant points to its claimed ... read more ...
Fri 7th August 2009
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Ancestry.com Files Slew of Domain Disputes - Ancestry.com files four domain disputes. In its SEC filing to go public, Ancestry.com warned that it may have difficulty protecting its brand in domain names. The company just took its first step to protecting its name by filing four separate arbitration requests for domain names with World Intellectual Property Organization. It seems that the company filed four “low hanging fruit” cases to establish a precedent. The no-brainer is wwwancestry.com, which you ... read more ...
Wed 29th July 2009
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You Make a Call: JosephSchlessinger.com - Yale professor wins domain name case. Was it the right decision? I came across an interesting WIPO domain dispute today for JosephSchlessinger.com. The case was brought by Joseph Schlessinger, a professor at Yale. The case initially caught my eye because, even before reading it, it was clearly brought by a person claiming common law rights to his name as a trademark, yet I had not heard of the person. It gets more interesting when you go to the web site, which ... read more ...
Mon 27th July 2009
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LACOSTE Bullies Domain Name Owner, Loses - Designer threatens person with last name LaCoste. Famous designer Lacoste Alligator S.A. has threatened a Massachusetts woman over her company name and domain name, which happens to be the woman’s last name: LaCoste. In October 2008 the designer sent a cease and desist letter to Audrey LaCoste, demanding that she cease using the domain names LaCosteHealingJewelry.com and LaCostJewelry.com for her business. Perhaps scared of the lawyer’s harsh language and threats ... read more ...
Tue 23rd June 2009
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National Arbitration Forum FAIL - Double jeopardy comes to UDRP. Last week I wrote about a WIPO domain arbitration case in which a complainant refiled a case after losing the first time. The arbitrator ruled that the complainant didn’t include any information in its refiled case that it couldn’t have discovered and filed in its original case. So he dismissed the case. But over at National Arbitration Forum double jeopardy is alive and well. On April 6, an arbitrator ruled that Traditional ... read more ...
Thu 11th June 2009
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CrapShoot: Man Rolls Dice on Casinos.org - Man files UDRP for domain name Casinos.org. To be fair, it was early this morning that I first saw an arbitration filing for the domain name Casinos.org at WIPO. I rubbed my eyes. This must be a joke, right? Perhaps there was more to the story, I thought. I looked up the history of the domain, and it appears to be owned by the same person for a couple years. Something just didn’t seem right. I emailed the owner of the domain to ask him what was going on. ... read more ...
Wed 20th May 2009
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Financial Firm Loses Bid for OVB.com - Arbitrator rules against large financial firm trying to get three character domain name. A World Intellectual Property Organization arbitrator has ruled against OVB Vermögensberatung AG of Köln, a financial firm based in Germany, in a dispute over the domain name OVB.com. The arbitrator decided that it was not clear the domain was registered and used in bad faith. Working against the respondent, Michele Dinoia, was that he has been on the losing end of a number ... read more ...
Tue 12th May 2009
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Tucows Gets “Victory” in Domain Dispute - Panel refuses to hear case due to lawsuit. Tucows (AMEX: TCX) appears to be joining a chorus of domain name owners who are bypassing UDRP and filing lawsuits in response to domain disputes. In a recent case DNA (Housemarks) Limited, owner of the Dunlop brand famous for automotive tires, filed for arbitration at World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to get the domain name Dunlop.com. Dunlop.com is part of OpenSRS Personal Names Service, which uses thousands ... read more ...
Thu 7th May 2009
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Tamiflu Maker Goes After Swine Flu Domain Names - Tamiflu maker files for arbitration to get swine flu domain names. Roche, maker of flu medicine Tamiflu, has filed two separate arbitration cases with World Intellectual Property Organization to get domain names related to its brand that are taking advantage of the swine flu outbreak. The first case is for swineflutamiflu.com and tamifluswineflu.com. Both domain names were registered last month by eComplex Corporation in Chicago. The domain names are parked. The ... read more ...
Mon 4th May 2009
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Jay Leno Tries to Tackle Cybersquatting Problem - Comedian files claims for three domain names, but still hasn’t done anything with JayLeno.com Comedian Jay Leno has filed claims with World Intellectual Property Organization to get three domain names: jaylenoshow.com, weeknightswithjayleno.com, and thejaylenoshow.com. Now if only he’d do something with JayLeno.com, which he picked up last year. JayLenoShow.com’s whois record is protected by domain privacy and is parked at HitFarm. Weeknightswithjayleno.com ... read more ...
Wed 29th April 2009
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Cadbury Wants a New Ocean on Web for Swedish Fish - Candy manufacturer wants domain name SwedishFish.com. Cadbury Adams, maker of the tasty red Swedish Fish candy, has filed for arbitration with World Intellectual Property Organization to get the domain name SwedishFish.com. Cadbury Adams currently uses the not-so-memorable domain name AfriendYouCanEat.com for its Swedish Fish web site. It also owns OriginalSwedishFish.com. The SwedishFish.com domain name’s whois record is currently protected by whois privacy, ... read more ...
Thu 2nd April 2009
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GoDaddy Gets Split Decision in Domain Dispute - GoDaddy wins one domain name, loses two others in UDRP. An arbitrator has handed down a split decision in a domain dispute brought by GoDaddy.com at World Intellectual Property Organization. As Domain Name Wire reported back in February, Go Daddy filed four UDRPs at WIPO for a number of domains covered by its trademarks. The most interesting case was against Domainsnext.com, a domain reseller. The dispute involved gotodaddy.com, gotodaddynot.com and gotodaddynot.net. The ... read more ...
Tue 24th March 2009
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VirtualSex.com Pickup Attempt Denied - Owner of VirtualSex.com defends domain name in arbitration. An arbitrator with World Intellectual Property Organization has ruled that the owners of VirtualSex.com can keep their domain name. A challenge was mounted by Digital Playground, Inc, an adult movie producer. Digital Playground has a hard-fought trademark on the term “Virtual Sex”, and claimed first use in commerce back in 1994. The respondent registered the domain name in 1995 and said it had not ... read more ...
Thu 19th March 2009
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SAP and Microsoft Lose Domain Name Case - Software giants fail to get domain name SAP-Microsoft.com. What happens when two of the world’s biggest software companies, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and SAP (NYSE: SAP), team up to do battle? They lose. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel found that an Israeli man should be able to keep the domain name SAP-Microsoft.com. But it was a close call, with the arbitrator finding that he wasn’t quite convinced that the domain name was registered in bad ... read more ...
Wed 18th March 2009
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New UDRP Domain Arbitration Search Engine Launches - UDRPsearch.com searches cases at National Arbitration Forum and WIPO. A new UDRP search engine, UDRPsearch.com, has launched. The web site allows you to search cases at both National Arbitration Forum and World Intellectual Property Organization without going to both sites. This is helpful for researching particular keywords, complainants, respondents, etc. The site is similar to another one I’ve written about, DomainFight.net. You can search by domain, complainant/respondent, ... read more ...
Mon 16th March 2009
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Jim Morrison Estate Wants Domain Name - JimMorrison.com in dispute at WIPO. The estate of the late rocker Jim Morrison wants the domain name JimMorrison.com, and it is taking its fight to World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) under UDRP rules. The domain name is currently owned by Rick Sentieri. The web site at JimMorrison.com includes lots of content that doesn’t exactly paint a coherent picture. The site proclaims: Welcome to the home of Jim Morrison’s Fantasy Magazine. It is the place ... read more ...
Thu 5th March 2009
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WIPOsquat: U.N. Organization Caught Cybersquatting - WIPO caught cybersquatting on trademarked term. Pot, meet kettle. World Intellectual Property Organization, one of the providers of domain name arbitration services under UDRP, seems to have a cybersquatting problem of its own. Domain name attorney John Berryhill came across this apparent hypocrisy when he noticed the domain name Patentscape.info forwards to WIPO.int. Patentscape is a trademark of law firm Needle Rosenberg, P.C. Think “patent landscape”. Patentscape.info ... read more ...