[...] Name Wire has previously noted that Harris has a record of “questionable” [...]

[...] erosion of the original UDRP protections are decried by panelist Diane Cabell in a dissent: Today, many panels will find proof of all three of the Policy’s elements simply [...]

[...] for the complainant under questionable circumstances, and even in the presence of irrefutable dissent and presence of pattern reverse hijacking on 3 party [...]

“poacher turned gamekeeper”

sound to me like the fox bragging that it is now guarding the hen house. I guess that we would have to ask the founding partner to know for sure what this means.

“secret weapon in a domain name dispute or a valuable adjunct to your businesses technology”

To me this means that with a trademark and the right ‘neutral’ panelest the value of domain arbitration to the trademark holder is found in the ability to take something that otherwise would have to be bought or done without. (just like real estate) Arbitration in a case like this only works in the long run provided that the target is weak.

In my opinion a careful look at this udrp decision reveals bias on its face and a look at the the website of the firm referenced above is suggestive of the outcome.

quote:

Carole Hailey …

‘Carole is a founding partner of Waterfront Solicitors LLP and …’

‘Recently, Carole has assisted a government department and a multi-national bank with the outsourcing of the development of business critical software solutions – two examples of Carole acting as poacher turned gamekeeper!’

-poacher turned gamekeeper! ?

Does anyone know what that means? Do lawyers usually talk that way?

“Therefore, a registered trade mark can be a secret weapon in a domain name dispute …”

… a general editor of, the International Trademark Association’s Annual International Review of Trademark Jurisprudence and Volume II of its annual Trademark Law Handbook.

http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/panel/profiles/harris-matthews.pdf

http://www.waterfrontsolicitors.com/about-us/partners