- December 1, 2009A respondent’s honest concurrent use of a term generally qualifies as a legitimate interest in a domain name identical or…
- November 30, 2009The UDRP provides a remedy for abusive registrations of domain names, including against parties formerly related, but jurisdiction does not…
- November 27, 2009In assessing bad faith “the complainant must prove that the respondent has ‘targeted’ the complainant or its mark in some…
- November 25, 2009Two recent decisions have highlighted Respondents’ legitimate interests in domain names that incorporate a holder’s trademark, by happenstance the same…
- November 24, 2009Paragraph 2 of the UDRP reads that by “applying to register a domain name, or by asking us to maintain…
- November 23, 2009Registering 1,017 variants of the Complainant’s trademark FREECREDITREPORT.COM is eye-popping and in its way hugely comic. ConsumerInfo.com, Inc. v. Netcorp…
- November 20, 2009Successor trademark holders complaining about domain names registered before they acquired their interests have the added burden of not having…
- November 19, 2009A long line of decisions holds that laches is not applicable to a UDRP proceeding, but waiting too long to…
- November 18, 2009There are domain names though similar are not necessarily confusingly similar. They sit on the borderline, and not surprisingly their…
- November 17, 2009First it was authorized resellers whose incorporation of a complainant’s trademark was deemed to be legitimate if they met the…
- November 16, 2009The Rules of the Policy limit each party to one pleading (Paragraphs 3 [complaint] and 5 [answer]), which can be…
- November 13, 2009Proving that a domain name is confusingly similar to complainant’s trademark is but one-third of the journey; the easiest part…