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A US appeals court has ruled that generic, dictionary domain names can be trademarked. The hotel-booking web site Booking.com was told last week that it is in fact eligible to have “Booking.com” registered as a trademark, over the objection...
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February 11, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy
The UDRP case filed against the domain GreenRoads.com was decided upon by 3 panelists at the WIPO. The 2005 domain registration was challenged by Green Roads of Florida LLC that asserted rights to a 2017 mark for GREEN ROADS. The Respondent was represe...
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January 30, 2019 DomainGang
Domain Law, Greenroads, GreenRoads.com
UDRP cases that involve a claimed registered trademark usually emphasize the mark’s fame at the time the domain was registered. In cases where the domain’s registration predates that of the mark, it’s a good idea to outline the chrono...
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January 22, 2019 DomainGang
CloudInsure.com, Domain Law
Domain investors with registered trademarks are familiar with the lengthy registration process at the USPTO. How much time does it take to register a trademark in the US? The answer is, “it depends.” Let’s take a look at two registere...
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November 12, 2018 DomainGang
Domain Name Wire
The domain BiggerHammer.com was registered in 2003, and in 2018 a company used a trademark registered in 2014 to take it from its registrant. Complainant is B.H.P.S. Corp. dba “Bigger Hammer” that asserted trademark rights in BIGGER HAMMER ...
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November 6, 2018 DomainGang
biggerhammer.com, Domain Law
Many domain investors use the United States Patent and Trademark Office web site, to research potential issues with domain names. IP attorneys that work on a variety of intellectual property cases, from trademark infringement to the filing of UDRP disp...
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October 20, 2018 DomainGang
trademark search, uspto, USPTO.gov
Registrars are still largely ignoring requests for private Whois data, according to a brand protection company working for Facebook. AppDetex wrote to ICANN (pdf) last week to say that only 3% of some 9,000 requests it has made recently have resulted i...
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October 18, 2018 Kevin Murphy
appdetex, Domain Policy, gdpr, temp spec
Pintz.com is a domain registered in 2000; eighteen years later, it’s handed over to a Hungarian law firm via the UDRP process. Thanks to the Respondent’s lack of legal representation, the domain was lost, despite its registration date preda...
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October 1, 2018 DomainGang
Domain Law, Hungary, Pintz, Pintz.com
Even if the domain owner is doing a bad thing, UDRP can only be used if all three prongs of the policy are met. The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) is a good tool to take over cybersquatted domain names. These names are often being used for nefarious purposes such as phishing or […]
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September 18, 2018 Andrew Allemann
countefeiting, Policy & Law
Brand protection registrar Com Laude has picked up smaller competitor Demys for an undisclosed sum. Demys, based in Edinburgh, is an ICANN-accredited registrar that specializes in the UK automotive, retail/leisure, media and consumer goods sectors. It ...
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September 11, 2018 Kevin Murphy
bentley motors, brand protection, Com Laude, demys, Domain Registrars