cybersquatting law
- September 26, 2014
This article, "Opportunist Registrations of Domain Names: What Is Going On, and What Tools Are Available for Trademark Owners," appears…
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Trademark dictionary words, compounds, phrases and acronyms (or strings of arbitrary letters complainants claim as trademarks) are regularly contested in…
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Typosquatting is the term applied to deliberate misspellings of trademarks. A high percentage of UDRP disputes involve domain names that…
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ICANN certified providers are solely reponsible for appointing UDRP panels. Sole member Panels are appointed by the Provider. The practice…
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Occasionally, there is inadvertent lapse of both trademark registration and domain name. But, while falling out of the trademark registry…
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Despite protective notice of expiration trademark holders continue to see their non renewed domain names registered by innocent purchasers as…
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Design trademarks combine figurative element(s) with word(s). The words may or may not be registrable standing alone. That they are…
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Personal names that are unregistrable as trademarks have no actionable claim under the UDRP for abusive registration of their names.…
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Unless personal names have achieved trademark status they are not protected under the UDRP and there can be no injunctive…
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See Anthology of Commentaries -- 2014 The test for establishing confusing similarity is relatively modest. Less or more so is…
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See Anthology of Commentaries -- 2014 In commencing the administrative proceeding, the complainant certifies "that the information contained in th[e]…
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Paragraph 4(a)(i) of the Policy is silent on whether the right the complainant is seeking to vindicate must be registered,…
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