- April 5, 2012Rule 17 of the Rules of the Policy provides instructions for terminating a proceeding after the file has been submitted…
- March 30, 2012The “use of a privacy or proxy registration service is not in and of itself an indication of bad faith…
- March 23, 2012Trademark law recognizes (with some qualification) that two parties can be entitled to use similar, even identical lexical strings where…
- March 16, 2012Domain names are not literally owned, but possessed for variable lengths of time pursuant to registration agreements that must be…
- March 7, 2012Combinations of letters are either acronyms or abbreviations for a company’s name – protectable or not against domain name registrants…
- February 29, 2012Abusive registration in the .xxx space is assessed under a sibling Policy to the UDRP, the Charter Eligibility Dispute Resolution…
- February 22, 2012A respondent acquires no right or legitimate interest in a domain name that incorporates a trademark by registering or renewing…
- February 15, 2012Assigning burdens in a UDRP proceeding is well established. For all paragraph 4(c) defenses respondent's proof must establish "past" and…
- February 8, 2012There have been a number of recent UDRP cases in which complainants' trademarks are composed of letters or words that…
- February 1, 2012See Anthology of Commentaries -- 2014 The complainant certifies in commencing the UDRP proceeding, “that the information contained in th[e]…
- January 24, 2012Distance is not only geographical and temporal but also measured by product or service offerings. The principle underlying temporal distance…
- January 18, 2012The test for establishing confusing similarity is relatively modest. Low though the bar is set, however, it is not satisfied…