“Manipulation” and “achieve UDRP reverse domain name hijacking” removed from profile.
Marco Notarnicola is an Intellectual Property/trademarks manager for Bigfoot Entertainment, a company that is coming under fire for questionable trademark activity. The company was recently found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP for Slized.com.
I was quite surprised when I came across Notarnicola’s LinkedIn profile, which stated that one of his responsibilities at BigFoot is:
co-existence, consent agreements, etc. to ensure creative resolution of IP disputes, including manipulation of TMs and common law marks to achieve UDRP “reverse domain name hijacking”
Although I have not personally heard from Notarnicola after contacting him for comment, he has changed his LinkedIn profile a couple of times.
First, he changed the word “achieve” to “recognize cases of,” which didn’t make much sense.
Now he has completely changed the controversial part of the statement:
co-existence, consent agreements, etc. to ensure creative resolution of IP disputes, including administration of trademarks and domains mechanics involving UDRP procedures.
It looks much better, but I’m sure anyone who receives a UDRP complaint from one of Gleisnner’s companies will benefit by pointing out the earlier profile.
Pathetic. It would be hard to come up with a fictional scenario as boneheadly stupid as Gleissner’s crew.
Thanks for posting Andrew … great information!
Pathetic!
There is more … if you check now, you will see that Mr Notarnicola has made his detailed LinkedIn profile private … LOL! 😀 … how ridiculous …
Are you sure about that? It works fine for me. You might have to be logged in to see the full details.
Now it works fine for me as well … weird …
Of course I’m logged in 🙂
In this day, and age how can we accept such things.
With all the transparency of the internet, there has to be a better communication channel, this is about bragging after a bank robbery outside the bank doors.
There has to be a better solution.
Berryhill and I don’t share the same view on the “transition,” but I like “pathetic,” “boneheadedly stupid” and totally implausible plot line if it were an evening TV drama episode. Sitcom at best. Nice work his role in bringing attention to this mentioned at World Trademark Review as well.
I also contributed “psychopath” and “menace” over here recently:
https://domainnamewire.com/2016/08/23/take-dnw-reader-survey/#comment-2240413
This has to be stopped and makes a mockery of everything IP.
What this dufus Italian lawyer may not realize is that – for better and for worse – here in the USA, we sue people over EVERYTHING. A woman just sued Starbucks for putting too much ice in her iced coffee, for crying out loud!
Gleissner has deep pockets. Which makes him the perfect target. Not only does he run a TV Channel (Fashion One); his domain portfolio alone is worth millions. The man has assets to seize, and I’m sure there are lawyers who’d love a chunk of his net worth.
This trademark / UDRP scheme Notarnicola and/or Gleissner seem to have concocted is flagrantly unethical. As I see things, they deserve to be sued into oblivion. And every time they attempt to steal someone else’s property, they’re begging to get sued. Go ahead! Keep on clumsily attempting to mug litigious Americans. See what happens!