Welcome to this week’s UDRP Digest (vol. 1.13), summarizing the most intriguing cases of the past week. Read about: ‣ “Unauthorized” Reseller is not a Cyber-squatter (walbrofuelpumps .com) ‣ Claims of Trademark Infringement Not Within Scope of the Policy (businessdoctornj .com) ‣ Domain Name Used to Impersonate a Law Firm (kpppb .com) ‣ Professor’s UDRP Gamble Doesn’t Pay Off (legalgamblingandthelaw …
RDNH, Impersonation, a Hijacked Domain and more! – ICA UDRP Digest – Volume 1.12
Welcome to this week’s UDRP Digest (vol. 1.12), summarizing the most intriguing cases of the past week. Read about: ‣ Complainant Wrongly Claimed Continuous Right, Over Cancelled Trademarks (carefix .com) ‣ Spanish Company Impersonates Famous Bank and This Happens (ing .capital) ‣ Similar Domain Names in Respondent’s Portfolio Show Legitimate Interest (impactifs .com) ‣ UDRP Doesn’t Help Recover Alleged Stolen …
Six New UDRP Cases You Won’t Want to Miss – ICA UDRP Digest – Volume 1.11
Welcome to this week’s UDRP Digest (vol. 1.11), summarizing the most intriguing cases of the past week. Read about: ‣ Fair Criticism against Florida’s Power & Light Company Upheld (fplratenotice .com) ‣ SAAS Company Redacts Competitors’ Domain Name (redactable .com) ‣ Dismissed in English (shalex .com) ‣ Three Panelists, Three Decisions (m31 .capital) ‣ Late Supplement Filing by Complainant Admitted, …
ICANN 72 Updates and New Appointments
The entirely virtual ICANN 72 wrapped up today. Our General Counsel, Zak Muscovitch took part in the meeting, which in part focussed on the ongoing discussions and debate of what constitutes DNS abuse and ICANN’s “inaction” on implementing policy recommendations. The next ICANN meeting will likely be a hybrid meeting held in Puerto Rico in March of 2022. Very preliminary …
Two Swedish Companies Get Mixed Bag Results, Reduction of Information, and more! ICA UDRP Digest – Volume 1.10
Welcome to this week’s UDRP Digest (vol. 1.10), summarizing the most intriguing cases of the past week. Read about: ‣ US Financial Broker Attempts to Take Advantage of Pre-IPO News of a Swedish Company (klarnapreipo .com) ‣ Swedish Complainant Could Not Protect its’ (Nordic) Nest (shopnordicnest .com) ‣ Respondent’s Identity Redacted in Exceptional Circumstances (securian .contact) ‣ Cannot Monopolize a …
ICA Files Comment on ICANN Proposals to Deprive Registrants of Recourse to Court following IGO UDRPs
In response to ICANN’s request for comments from stakeholders, the ICA filed its Comment today, on the Initial Report on Specific Curative Rights Protections for IGOs. This is an important issue that the ICA has been actively involved in for many years and ICA Board Member Jay Chapman served in the ICANN group working on this issue on behalf of …
Two IP Law Firms Accused of Cybersquatting, and more – ICA UDRP Digest – Volume 1.9
Welcome to this week’s UDRP Digest (vol. 1.9), summarizing the most intriguing cases of the past week. Read about: ‣ IP Law Firm claim of generic meaning in ‘LEGO’ rejected (legoip .com) ‣ Law Firms battle it out for the ‘Torrent Defenders’ title! (torrentdefenders .com) ‣ Lack of credible explanation leads to Transfer of descriptive Domain Name (vetexpert .com) ‣ …
UDRP Refresher: Jurisdiction, Common Law Rights, Requirements, Distributing, and More! ICA UDRP Digest – Vol 1.8
Welcome to this week’s UDRP Digest (vol. 1.8), summarizing the most intriguing cases of the past week. Read about: ‣ No Bad Faith, ‘Givn’ the weak Evidence (givn .com) ‣ Well-known mark (medtronic) v. Legitimate interests (medo+tronic) (medotronic .com) ‣ This UDRP did not click with majority Panel (clickbetter .com and clickbetter .info) ‣ Indonesian distributor meets OKI data Test …
Star UDRP Panelists Hand Out Big Losses to Complainants – ICA UDRP Digest – Vol 1.7
Welcome to this week’s UDRP Digest (vol. 1.7), summarizing the most intriguing cases of the past week. Read about: ‣ Complainant Agrees to Purchase Domain Name, Then Brings UDRP and Loses, Gets Slapped with RDNH (transcrip .com) ‣ Sky Fail (skycell .com) ‣ Arigato, Mr. Roboto! (smart-robotics .com) ‣ $6,888 Domain Name – Complaint Brings UDRP Instead of Buying – …
ICA Weekly UDRP Case Summary Digest – Volume 1.6
Welcome to this week’s UDRP Digest (vol. 1.6), summarizing the most intriguing cases of the past week. Read about: ‣ Attempt to swap website redirection foiled (uniswap .com) ‣ Domaining overpowers Canadian Healthcare Company (nuro .com) ‣ Too much of a hype by ‘The Hype Company’ (thehypecompany .com) ‣ Quixotic idea leads to shattered dreams (vandorp .com) ‣ The Vietnamese …