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July 26, 2016
Astronomical Increases in Domain Names: Low Constancy of Abusive Registrations
When ICANN implemented the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) in 1999 the number of registered domain names were…
Abusive registration, Cybersquatting, Domain name law, Protecting rights, Trademarks, Trademarks and domain names, udrp law, Uniform Domain Name Resolution Policy
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June 6, 2016
Declaring and Declining to Find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
What to one panelist is clearly bad faith conduct in filing a UDRP complaint, to another is excusable for lack…
Abusive registration, Cybersquatting, cybersquatting law, Protecting rights, Trademarks, Trademarks and domain names, udrp law, World Intellectual Property Organization
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May 18, 2016
Earlier Registered Domain Names, Later Acquired Trademarks
The Rise of Cyber-Entrepreneurs Trademarks have a long history; domain names are of recent origin. Trademarks were "invented" to "identify…
Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, Cybersquatting, cybersquatting law, Protecting rights, Trademarks, Trademarks and domain names, udrp law, World Intellectual Property Organization
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April 18, 2016
Quintessential and Other Acts of Bad Faith in Acquiring Domain Names
There are two essential differences between the UDRP and the ACPA, one procedural and one substantive. The procedural difference is…
Abusive registration, Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers, Protecting rights, Trademarks, Typosquatting, udrp law, udrp proceedings
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February 5, 2016
No Barrier to Reading Across the Dot
Even before the introduction of new top level domains in 2014 Panels had grappled with the before and after the…
Cybersquatting, cybersquatting law, Protecting rights, Trademarks, udrp law, udrp proceedings
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November 3, 2015
No Standing for Similar that is not Confusingly Similar
If a domain name is similar but not confusingly similar to the trademark in which complainant has rights the complaint…
Common law trademarks, Cybersquatting, cybersquatting law, Domain name law, Protecting rights, udrp law, udrp proceedings, Uniform Domain Name Resolution Policy
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January 19, 2015
Elevating Form Over Substance in Denying Relief for Cybersquatting
Denying relief for cybersquatting is generally supported by lack of proof of abusive registration not for inexactitude in characterizing whether…
cybersquatting law, Protecting rights, Trademarks, UDRP Commentaries, udrp law, udrp proceedings, Uniform Domain Name Resolution Policy
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January 15, 2015
Recent Articles on Trademark and Cybersquatting
See also Anthology of Commentaries on Cybersquatting -- 2014 Understanding the Legal Options Used to Fight Cybersquatting Compressed in as…
cybersquatting law, Protecting rights, Trademarks, UDRP Commentaries, udrp law, udrp proceedings
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December 31, 2014
Advantages and Approaches in Registering Trademarks
Advantages and Approaches in Registering Trademarks _ New York Law Journal, December 30, 2014 (Outside Counsel), p. 5. Also, on…
Common law trademarks, Protecting rights, Registration, Trademarks
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August 30, 2010
Not All Similarity is Confusing
Judged objectively not all similarity is confusing with domain names and trademarks. Paragraph 4(a)(i) of the Policy is not satisfied…
Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, Cybersquatting, cybersquatting law, Domain name law, Protecting rights, Registration, Trademarks, UDRP Commentaries, udrp law, udrp proceedings, Uniform Domain Name Resolution Policy
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