Uniform Domain Name Resolution Policy
- December 6, 2011
Ordinarily, personal names are not registrable for trademark because they are not sources of goods or services but celebrities can…
, - November 29, 2011
Complaint must show a reputation when domain name was registered; a present reputation alone is insufficient if trademark had non…
, - November 22, 2011
An employee charged to attend to his employer’s intellectual property assets can have no right or legitimate interests in domain…
, - November 17, 2011
There are two lines of reasoning from U.S. circuit courts on the issue of whether transfer of a domain name…
, - November 15, 2011
See Anthology of Commentaries -- 2014 The test for establishing confusing similarity is relatively modest. Less or more so is…
, , , - November 10, 2011
Distinctiveness (despite the affirmativeness of the word) is a fluid concept. It could mean "distinctive" in its class but not…
, - November 8, 2011
An abusive registration presupposes either an existing trademark or knowledge of its existence when registering the domain name. If the…
- November 3, 2011
One of complaints against UDRP is inconsistency in decision-making. This comes about because Panels are not obliged to follow precedent,…
- November 1, 2011
Unless personal names have achieved trademark status, they are not protected under the UDRP. Excluded are living persons whose reputations…
, - October 31, 2011
Co-author Gerald M. Levine Not all speech in blogland is protected although as a general rule there is no exposure…
, , , - October 27, 2011
There is a strong consensus that a complainant's demand for transfer of a domain name that is identical or confusingly…
- October 25, 2011
There is no administrative appeal to a UDRP order, but the aggrieved party has the right to challenge an order…
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