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10
Nov
2009
Evidence Necessary to Prove Common Law Trademark

6 hours ago by gmlevine

While it is true that “Panelists with WIPO and NAF have sometimes approached the issue of proof of trademark ‘rights’ … in a slightly more relaxed manner than does the USPTO when it requires proof of secondary meaning,” NJRentAScooter v. AM Business Solutions LLC, FA0909001284557 (Nat. Arb. Forum No ...

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09
Nov
2009
Brand Owners, Representatives of WIPO and ICANN Discuss New gTLD Concerns

21 hours ago by CircleID Reporter

Managing Intellectual Property, in association with Finnegan, has released an article based on a recently hosted discussion regarding ICANN's approved plans to open the domain name system to an unlimited number of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and how the Implementation Recommendation Team's (IR ...

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Don’t Mess with Verizon, Motorola, and Lucasfilm

21 hours ago by Elliot

Just about every time a big company announces the launch of a new product, people buy related domain names for a multitude of reasons. Some buy them with the hopes of selling them to another company, others want to capitalize on potential popular typos, and yet others want to offer services, forums, ...

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Mimicking Trademark by Appropriating Its Dominant Syllabic Elements

23 hours ago by gmlevine

It is not necessary for a string of syllables to make sense to obtain a trademark registration. Indeed, the least sense syllables make the more obvious its appropriation. In this respect a string of nonsense is no different from any other arbitrary sign, which under trademark law is given the highes ...

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Gucci al centro di una disputa per nome a dominio

1 day ago by claudiasantini

Dopo Luis Vuitton, un’altra casa di moda è finita al centro di una disputa per nome a dominio. Gucci si è infatti rivolta al WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, chiedendo di poter avanzare diritti sul dominio guccitube.com. Gucci ovviamente possiede tutti i possibili marchi registrati sul brand “ ...

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Cybersquatting sur Twitter, comment récupèrer un compte déjà utilisé ...

1 day ago by Olivier

Connue depuis l’apparition des noms de domaine, cette pratique s’est aussi répandue à Twitter. Son but ? Empêcher des personnes d’avoir leur espace sur le Net, ou simplement espérer le vendre à l’ayant-droit. Twitter propose des solutions pour récupérer le compte voulu pour son usage personnel ou po ...

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06
Nov
2009
How to Report a Cybersquatted Twitter Account Name

3 days ago by Pixelrage

If you’re wondering how much I hate cybersquatters and socialquatters by now, the answer is a resounding “A LOT.” Here’s a helpful little article for anyone who wants to report one of these bastards to Twitter for having claimed a Twitter username without ever using it. Turn a 0_o into a :) with the ...

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Untying Registration and Use in Construing Bad Faith

4 days ago by gmlevine

The two letter combination “hz” is not by itself confusingly similar to “Hertz” (the automobile rental company) despite the aural similarity, but can become so when coupled with “car,” as in , Hertz System, Inc. v. Kwan-ming Lee, D2009-1165 (WIPO October 14, 2009). Asserting purity of int ...

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Fraud at Domain Name Auction House

4 days ago by Dan Kelly

A bomb exploded in the domain name aftermarket world on Wednesday. A well-known domain name auction house called SnapNames.com announced that one of its (now former) employees had been bidding as a shill in many online domain name auctions run by the company since 2005. SnapNames has an FAQ page on ...

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05
Nov
2009
Timing and Circumstances of Acquisition

5 days ago by gmlevine

Timing and Circumstances of Acquisition Having an incontestable trademark composed of generic or descriptive elements opens the door to a UDRP challenge, but length of use in commerce is no guarantee that the holder is entitled to the corresponding domain name. Weak trademarks lack the strength of t ...

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