Comments on: WorldWide Media Sues to Retain SmoothMove.com

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:40:01 +0000

@ UDRPTalk – they reached a confidential settlement in August, which included the domain being transferred to Traditional Medicinals.

By: UDRPtalk

UDRPtalk — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:05:34 +0000

http://www.SmoothMove.com has been recently transferred.

What was the outcome of the lawsuit?

By: Jirgo

Jirgo — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:02:18 +0000

“Traditional Medicinals has 30+ years of commercial usage and a Principal trademark (1983) prior to WorldWide Mediaâ€™s registration.”

Yup K. But was/is the TM famous enough to be noticed and accepted as “famous enough”.
Is the common man aware of “Smooth Move” tea?. Even the arbiters may have never heard about that before.

Just because someone has registered trademark rights in a generic name does not mean that they shall have exclusive right over it, just due to the virtue of first or continuing use.

This is like McDonalds tradmarking “Burger” and going after burger.com

By: stu

stu — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:38:01 +0000

WIPO and UDRP are very well known to be corrupt and once again this proves the case,if the domain was parked and it the links were not selling anything to do with the TM holders business there clearly should be no case to answer………..yet the udrp come up with these bullshit decisions,there should not be such thing as wipo or udrp and just make it a straight court battle that would stop most of the bullshit cases happening.

By: K

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:35:09 +0000

Hi Domainer,

I have no direct or indirect association with this case. I’m an outside observer.

By: Domainer

Domainer — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:32:31 +0000

“K”
It looks like you have a dog in this fight?

Bernard,
You are correct.
Most domainers have seen a decrease in ppc revenue. But, many have already moved (or are headed in that direction) into domain development which is more lucative.

I’m positive we don’t need to run a fundraiser for WWM.

It will interesting to see if Medicinals and Mr. Drake have the stomach for this legal battle. It usually brings out data that sometimes the company doesn’t want to become public.

Should be interesting to watch.

By: Bernard

Bernard — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:01:48 +0000

Just LOL, the domainer business model seems severly hurt these days. No more parking income, rare sales outside the domainer crowd just exchanging domains at artificial high values, and know high legal costs to eventually keep the domains.