World Intellectual Property Organization
- January 12, 2012
Unless personal names have achieved trademark status they are not protected under the UDRP and there can be no injunctive…
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Panels are typically faced with a cascade of options in resolving UDRP disputes. Complainants do not necessarily prevail for proving…
, , - November 1, 2011
Unless personal names have achieved trademark status, they are not protected under the UDRP. Excluded are living persons whose reputations…
, - September 28, 2011
Panels have long put to rest the argument that re-registration (or renewal of) is equivalent to registration, although there continue…
, - August 31, 2011
You may well ask, What does deliberative conversation have to do with the making of domain name jurisprudence? Mention was…
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Of all the WIPO Views on Selected UDRP Questions, two stand out for Panels being in disagreement. Criticism sites (paragraph…
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Expressing one's thoughts in a domain name identical or confusingly similar to a trademark is protected speech even if it…
, - July 29, 2011
Relief under the UDRP is not closed to unregistered trademark holders – they too are covered – but the burden…
, , , - March 10, 2011
As a general rule, domain name registrations that precede trademark rights cannot have been in bad faith even though (and…
, , - March 3, 2011
Paragraph 4(a)(i) of the Policy is silent on whether the right the complainant is seeking to vindicate must be registered,…
, , , , , , , - January 25, 2011
The extension ".co" (country code for Columbia) is perfectly respectable although confusing with ".com" where the second level domain is…
, , - December 30, 2010
The test for proving a common law right is demanding. It cannot be satisfied by asserting facts unaccompanied by evidence…
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