Group went after locksmith in Naples who uses the business name AAA Locksmith. American Automobile Association (AAA) has lost a cybersquatting claim against a Florida locksmith who uses the brand AAA Locksmith. Adam Cooper uses the domain name ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Major.com UDRP denied, but no RDNH
· Policy & LawA UDRP for a major domain name. A single member World Intellectual Property Organization panel has denied a UDRP filed by Major Wire Industries Limited against the owner of Major.com. Panelist Christopher S. Gibson declined to find reverse domain name ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Paris Hilton wins case to take down sex video site
· Policy & LawArbitration panel sides with celebrity in domain name dispute. Socialite Paris Hilton has won a cybersquatting case she filed against the owner of a site that offered her sex tapes. Hilton filed the case with World Intellectual Property Organization ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Gucci wins 182 domain names in a UDRP
· Policy & LawGucci wins a lot of domain names in a UDRP decision. Italian design firm Guccio Gucci S.p.A. has won 182 domain names in a UDRP. It's one of the highest number of domain names I've seen transferred in a single UDRP, although there have certainly ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Standard & Poor’s loses domain name dispute
· Policy & LawFinancial services company and rating agency can't have "boycott" domain name, panel rules. Standard & Poor’s has lost a UDRP against the domain name BoycottStandardandPoors.com at World Intellectual Property Organization. The domain name owner ... Continue Reading2 Comments
.Axis TLD appears dead after WIPO decision
· Policy & LawWIPO decides not to accept late response to objection. World Intellectual Property Organization has made a determination that it will not accept a late response to a Legal Rights Objection against .axis, thereby effectively killing off Saudi Telecom ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Kudos to the World Intellectual Property Organization
· Policy & LawWIPO's online reporting functionality beats its competitors. I write a lot of articles bashing decisions made by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panelists in UDRPs. So I think it's only fair that I give the group props when it's ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Here’s Del Monte’s WEIRD lawsuit to overturn .delmonte decision
· Policy & LawDel Monte International uses cybersquatting and UDRP rules in attempt to overturn .delmonte objection. Yesterday I wrote about Del Monte International (DMI) Gmbh's lawsuit against Del Monte Corporation (DMC) after the latter won its objection to the ... Continue Reading1 Comment
8 observations from the first new TLD objection decisions
· Policy & LawSome take-aways from WIPO's first three legal rights objection decisions. WIPO has published the results of three legal rights objections for new TLDs. Objectors to .home, .vip, and .rightathome all lost their cases. Here are eight observations from ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Scammy survey site beats Tumblr in domain dispute
· Policy & LawLawyers don't provide enough evidence to convince panel that domain was registered in bad faith. Tumblr, the company that Yahoo is acquiring for $1.1 billion, has lost a cybersquatting claim for the domain name tublr.com. In its complaint filed with ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
