Domain name law
- February 22, 2016
As trademarks composed of dictionary words or descriptive phrases descend the classification scale there is an increasing likelihood of registrants…
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Unlike trademarks that are owned (even if not registered) domain names are leased for renewable periods without end, but can…
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The UDRP has no specific rules for rehearing or reconsidering a complaint. It is one of those legal issues left…
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Although complainants of trademarks postdating the registration of domain names have standing to maintain a UDRP proceeding they have no…
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There has been a noticeably larger number of cases over the past several months of respondents consenting to cancellation or…
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Claims of cybersquatting for registering and holding two and three letter domain names have a history dating back to the…
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Some trademark owners see changes in the Whois Registry as an opportunity to seize control of domain names corresponding to…
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Mr. Levine is the author of a treatise on trademarks, domain names, and cybersquatting, Domain Name Arbitration, A Practical Guide…
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If a domain name is similar but not confusingly similar to the trademark in which complainant has rights the complaint…
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In a number of UDRP cases decided this year several turned on the issue of credibility, sometimes involving "advocate's hyperbole"…
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This article was first appeared in the New York Law Journal, September 30, 2015 GoDaddy.com, which is the largest registrar…
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This article first appeared in Industry Today (9/16/2015) Domain names exist solely on the Internet. They are primarily functional elements.…
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