Tag Archives: world intellectual property organization

Tue 6th September 2011
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Yahoo Upset About X-Rated Flickr Sites - Company files complaint over sites that use its Flickr brand. Yahoo has turned to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to help it shut down two X-rated sites that use Flickr in their domain names. The company filed the complaint with WIPO over the domain names nastyflickr.com and nudeflickr.com, each of which lead to a web site containing adult photos. They each contain a logo that looks similar to the Flickr blue and red logo as well. They are owned ... read more ...
Fri 26th August 2011
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French Company Files UDRP Against Google’s AdWords.com - Company that was subject to Google UDRP fights back. French company Francotel, LLC has filed a UDRP complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) over the domain name Adwords.com, Domain Name Wire has learned. The case is not yet posted on WIPO’s web site. Francotel has a French trademark for “Adwords”. It filed to cancel Google’s European Union trademark for “Adwords” earlier this year but lost the case. Google filed a UDRP against ... read more ...
Fri 19th August 2011
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Google Gets XXX Domain Name* - Company gets a triple xxx domain name — but I’m not talking about the top level domain. Google has gotten its hands on GoogleXXX — but not Google.xxx (yet). The company was awarded GoogleXXX.com in a World Intellectual Property Forum ruling just handed down. This got me thinking: with the .xxx top level domain name coming out, will it lead to more xxx typos? One type of domain companies should consider registering is just like what Google just got — trademarkxxx.com. ... read more ...
Wed 20th July 2011
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National Football League Fights Over Super Bowl Web Site - NFL wants to take over Super Bowl web site. The National Football League’s lawyers may be busy trying to settle the lockout, but its lawyers have time to play games with domain names, too. The NFL just filed a domain name dispute with World Intellectual Property Organization over the domain name SuperBowlConcierge.com. The domain name is owned by Houston, Texas based EE Nation, which offers a number of travel services. SuperBowlConcierge.com is focused primarily ... read more ...
Mon 20th December 2010
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Companies Have Filed 51 .Co Disputes and Haven’t Lost Yet - Benefit of the doubt given to complainants in .co cases. Companies have filed 51 UDRPs against .co domain names since the relaunch of .co into an international domain name extension over the summer. They haven’t lost yet. Complainants are 25-0 in cases that have been decided, and further settled seven cases prior to having them heard by World Intellectual Property Organization panelists. In most cases the domain at issue is an exact match to a famous brand such ... read more ...
Fri 1st October 2010
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Pamela Anderson Gets Another Domain from Alberta Hot Rods - Pamela Anderson beats an old foe to get domain name. Pamela Anderson has won a case for the domain name PamAnderson.com in an arbitration case at World Intellectual Property Forum. The case was brought against Alberta Hot Rods, a group that had a run in with Anderson back in 2002. In the 2002 WIPO case Anderson won the domain names PamelaAnderson.com, PamelaAnderson.net, and PamelaLee.com. What’s somewhat strange is how Anderson didn’t go after the PamAnderson.com ... read more ...
Fri 10th September 2010
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Asia Trademark Domain Scam Now Spoofing WIPO - Scam ups the ante by pretending to be World Intellectual Property Organization. The Trademark Domain Name Scam is upping the ante, now pretending to be an email sent from World Intellectual Property Organization. In this scam, an entity that usually says it’s located in Asia says that someone has applied to register a number of domain names that include your “trademark” (really just the second level of one of your domain registrations). You can see an example ... read more ...
Tue 20th April 2010
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ScotiaBank Loses Case for Caribana Festival Domain Name - Title sponsor for Carnival event in Toronto loses case to get Caribana.com domain name. Bank of Nova Scotia, the title sponsor for Toronto’s Caribbean Carnival called “Caribana”, has lost a dispute to gain ownership of the domain name Caribana.com. Bank of Nova Scotia — aka ScotiaBank — filed the complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to get the domain name from Working Word Co-operative, which publishes Word Magazine. Working Word ... read more ...
Wed 16th September 2009
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Apple Fights for Mexican Domain Name - iPod and iTunes maker fights for Mexican country code domain name. Apple, Inc. has launched a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization over the domain name iTunes.com.mx. .Mx is Mexico’s country code, and .com.mx is the standard second level domain used in the country (although Mexico is now opening up .mx at the first level). The arbitration panel should render a decision on whether Apple gets the domain name within a couple months. This isn’t ... read more ...
Wed 15th July 2009
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Dunkin’ Donuts Goes Dunkin’ for UAE Domains - Donuts and ice cream are big business in United Arab Emirates. Dunkin’ Brands, through two intellectual property holding companies, has filed for arbitration to get United Arab Emirates .ae domain names related to two of its brands. The two separate cases were filed with World Intellectual Property Organization. In the first case, the company filed for two domains related to Dunkin’ Donuts: dunkin-donuts.ae and dunkindonuts.ae. The second case is for Baskin ... read more ...
Fri 10th July 2009
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Heineken Wants Heineken.tel Domain Name - Brewer files complaint with World Intellectual Property Association. Heineken Espana, SA, has filed for arbitration at World Intellectual Property Organization to get the domain name Heineken.tel. .Tel is a new domain name designed to be a business card on the web. Because .tel domain names can’t be developed as traditional web sites, I’ve wondered how an arbitrator would decide that a .tel domain was registered and used in bad faith. In this case, the owner ... read more ...
Thu 18th June 2009
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No Double Jeopardy for Domain Name Case - Companies loses second attempt to acquire domain name GetMore.com through domain arbitration. I was wrong. In January of this year I wrote an article “Domain Arbitration Doesn’t ‘Get More’ Crazy Than This” about a UDRP case for the domain GetMore.com. The title of the article was wrong, because this case just became even more crazy. The complainant, which lost the case, refiled a case with World Intellectual Property Organization claiming that it has ... read more ...
Thu 28th May 2009
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BlackBerry Wins 101 Domain Names in Single UDRP Case - Smartphone maker gains 101 domain names in single dispute. When it comes to getting bang for your buck in domain name arbitration, Research in Motion may have just set the bar. In a single UDRP case filed at World Intellectual Property Organization, the BlackBerry maker won 101 domains (and was denied 10 others). BlackBerry filed the complaint against Georges Elias, who registered all 111 domains at GoDaddy. Elias’ imaginative registration spree included domains ... 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 ...
Fri 9th January 2009
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Domain Arbitration Doesn’t “Get More” Crazy Than This - Denmark company tries to grab GetMore.com domain name at arbitration. Picture this. You own an online electronics store called GetMore.dk. After a few years you realize you probably should own GetMore.com as well. So you find out the owner of the domain has listed it for sale on Sedo. You try to negotiate but the owner wants too much. Who you gonna call? WIPO. That’s what GetMore A/S, owner GetMore.dk did. It filed an arbitration case for GetMore.com. It ... read more ...
Thu 14th August 2008
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Guest Article: How Do we Become a UDRP Arbitration Panelist? - A look at the qualifications of UDRP arbitration panelists. [Editor’s note: a few weeks ago a couple readers, who were distraught by a recent domain dispute that seemed to be decided unfairly, asked what it takes to be a UDRP panelist who decides domain disputes. I asked Enrico Schaefer, an attorney with Traverse Legal, PLC, to write an article about the UDRP arbitration qualification process.] Domain name disputes are important matters for both trademark holders ... read more ...