Tag Archives: world intellectual property forum

Tue 9th August 2011
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Nintendo 1-Ups for Popular SuperMario.com Web Site - Nintendo wants to lay claim to high traffic web site. Decades after bringing the iconic video game character Mario and the Super Mario series to millions of gamers, Nintendo has decided it wants the domain name SuperMario.com. The company just filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Forum to get the domain name. Nintendo may be concerned about the content of the site, which is a collection of online Super Mario games. The site gets a whopping 200,000 visits ... read more ...
Fri 5th August 2011
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Apple Goes After High Traffic iTunes Typo Domain Names - Apple asks arbitration panel to give it typo domain names. Apple has filed a dispute with World Intellectual Property Forum over two high traffic typos of iTunes.com. The complaint covers wwiTunes.com and wwwiTunes.com, both of which take advantage fat fingered web surfers who still insist on typing “www” before domain names. Compete.com shows that wwwiTunes.com gets thousands of unique typo visitors a month. Although the domains get traffic, Apple customers can’t ... read more ...
Wed 3rd August 2011
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Wikipedia Takes Down Web Hosting Site - Wikimedia wins dispute over web hosting comparison site. Wikipedia owner Wikimedia Foundation Inc. has won a case against the owner of WebhostingWikipedia.com, which will be transferred to Wikimedia as a result. From reading the case decision, it’s fairly clear the owner of the web hosting comparison site at WebhostingWikipedia.com had no idea that Wikipedia was a trademark. So let’s be clear: the generic term is wiki. Wikipedia is a specific site. If you want ... read more ...
Thu 21st July 2011
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Walmart Challenges Non-Profit Over OurWalmart.org Domain Name - Company files dispute to get OURWalmart.com domain name. [UPDATE: The original story said the case was against OURWalmart.com. It was actually against OurWalmart.org, which is indeed owned by the non-profit. Additionally, WIPO has handed down a decision in favor of Wal-Mart. The story has been corrected.] Walmart has started a fight with non-profit OUR Walmart over the domain name OurWalmart.org. OUR Walmart, which stands for “Organization United for Respect at ... read more ...
Sun 17th July 2011
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Arbitration for Twitter Typo Twiter.com Terminated, Then Refiled - Massive Twitter.com typo case terminated, then refiled. An arbitration case at World Intellectual Property forum over the domain name Twiter.com has been terminated, only for the company to file a second case. Cases are typically terminated when the domain owner agrees to hand the domain name over to the complainant. In this case it appears the case may have been terminated and then refiled after the domain name registrar disclosed the owner of the domain name. The ... read more ...
Thu 23rd June 2011
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A First: Complainant Loses Case for .Co Domain Name - Champagne.co becomes first .co domain name case won by respondent. A complainant has finally lost a UDRP case for a .co domain name. Comite Interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne has lost the case it brought for the domain name Champagne.co. The decision text hasn’t been posted yet, but this is the first time a complainant has lost a .co complaint at World Intellectual Property Forum since .co was liberalized last year. I’m not sure about National Arbitration ... read more ...
Wed 8th June 2011
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Atlas Shrugged Movie Producers Win 1, Lose 1 - Same panelist. Similar domains. Different result, even on confusing similarity. The producers of the new Atlas Shrugged Movie filed two UDRP cases with World Intellectual Property Forum for essentially the same domains: AtlasShruggedMovie.com and AtlasShruggedMovies.com. They lost the first one and won the second one. Oh, and the same panelist (Richard G. Lyon) heard both cases. And decided them within a day of each other. The facts in the cases differed slightly ... read more ...
Thu 7th April 2011
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National Arbitration Forum Gets The Headline Right - UDRP filings up. That doesn’t mean cybersquatting is increasing. Today National Arbitration Forum released statistics about its UDRP caseload from 2010. It was up 24% from 2009 to 2,177 cases. The group’s press release headline is: National Arbitration Forum Reports a 24 Percent Increase in Domain Name Dispute Filings in 2010 This is an accurate and factual statement. Compare this to World Intellectual Property Forum’s headline when it released numbers last ... read more ...
Wed 23rd February 2011
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7S.com Owner Can Keep Domain Name Despite Andrew Christie’s Opinion - Activist UDRP panelist at it again in 7s.com case. If you ever need to point a finger at UDRP panelists that are trying to pervert the entire system, one of those should be Andrew Christie. I awarded Christie a “Domain Dunce” award in 2009 for his attempts to change the plain language and thousands of cases of precedent of UDRP. He did it by circularly referencing his own cases. Now Christie is at it again in the case of 7s.com. The owner of the domain name ... read more ...
Wed 9th February 2011
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UDRP Cases Spike in 2010 - Number of cases filed in 2010 increases thanks largely to brand protection services. The number of Uniform domain-name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP)cases filed at the two largest arbitration providers increased over 25% in 2010 compared to 2009, a Domain Name Wire analysis shows. However, the rate of filing defined as the number of cases divided by the number of registered domains remains near an all time low. World Intellectual Property Forum handled 2,696 cases ... read more ...
Fri 1st October 2010
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Miss Universe Goes After Sex Tape Domain Names - Miss Universe turns to arbitration to take down web sites. Miss Universe L.P. has filed complaints with World Intellectual Property Forum in an effort to gain control of two web site promoting sex videos. One complaint was filed against missuniversesexvideo.com (warning: explicit), a web site that indicates it has video from a sex tape scandal that broke last year. (Did I really just link to TMZ?) The other complaint was filed against missusasex.com, which seems ... read more ...
Thu 16th September 2010
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The Southern Company Goes After Power Domain Names - Company files four UDRPs. Are these generic domains or trademarks? The Southern Company has filed four UDRP cases to get domain names that include a state or region and power company in them: georgiapowercompany.com mississippipowercompany.com alabamapowercompany.com gulfpowercompany.com This will be an interesting set of cases to follow. On the surface these may look like generic domain names. But the Southern Company has subsidiaries named the same as each of ... read more ...
Mon 16th November 2009
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Rate of Domain Cybersquatting Hits All Time Low - Rate of cybersquatting continues decline. The rate of cybersquatting, as measured by arbitration filings under Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy, has hit an all time low. A Domain Name Wire analysis of UDRP filings dating back to 2000, the first year UDRP was widely used, showed marked declines. UDRP filings were compared to the total number of .com domain names in existence each year to calculate an effective rate of cybersquatting. Although .com domain names ... read more ...