Organization that oversees California lawyers let domain expire and loses cybersquatting challenge to get the domain back.
The State Bar of California–the group responsible for admitting attorneys to practice in California–has shown its member how not to argue a cybersquatting dispute.
The organization let one of its domain names, Calsb.org, expire last year. It first registered the domain name in 1996.
It filed a cybersquatting complaint under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) with National Arbitration Forum in an effort to get the domain back. In the dispute, it failed to persuade panelist Debrett G. Lyons that the Calsb.org domain name is confusingly similar to a mark in which the Bar has rights.
The State Bar of California has a registered trademark for “The State Bar of California” and claims that it has unregistered trademark rights in “California State Bart” and “Calsb”. Lyons determined that the domain name is not confusingly similar to the first two and calsb could stand for many things.
Regarding unregistered rights to Calsb, Lyons was unconvinced by the evidence the Complainant submitted.
The Bar previously won a UDRP in 2001 for CAStateBar.com and in 2005 for CaliforniaStateBar.com. Its official website is calbar.ca.gov.
Calsb.org was purchased in a GoDaddy expired domain name auction last year for $676. This morning the domain name forwarded to a zero click parking page for a scam security warning.
Robert says
As the lawyer awoke from surgery, he asked, “Why are all the blinds drawn?” The nurse answered, “There’s a fire across the street, and we didn’t want you to think you had died”
William J. Wagener says
State BAR is for all appearances, an organized Mafia, to deprive Americans of all 50 states their common Law rights. Why did the Bus line Company stop running buses by the Courthouses? Because so many Defense Attorneys
were throwing their clients under the buses, that the Bus Company could
no longer afford Liability Insurance, beCAUSE their Attorney threw them
under their own BUS. The Courts have lost 99% of what little credibility
they had, when Federal Judge David O. Carter, promised in 2008 that a
Federal Jury would determine if nominee Barack H. Obama was legally
qualified to be President… and then did a 180 degree flip and dismissed the
case, allegedly after a former Obama atty. was appointed as his personal
Clerk. A decade later, Billie Rene Powers, was allowed to make a statement in
David O. Carters Federal Courtroom, with her lack luster & reluctant atty. Angela Swann siting next to her, but when the Court Reporters OFFICIAL transcripts
were obtained, not a word of Billie Rene POWERS statement was on it. Treason, trickery, fake judicial process? What do you think. Should Trump seek
removal of Federal Judge David O. Carter?