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“UK’s safest broadband”: TalkTalk in breach of CAP and BCAP Code

McDermott Will & Emery
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United Kingdom
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February 29 2012

TalkTalk’s adverts claiming to offer the “UK’s safest broadband” have been found to be in breach of the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) and Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) Code

Nominet proposes changes to UK generic top level domain name registration rules

McDermott Will & Emery
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United Kingdom
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February 29 2012

Nominet, which runs one of the world’s largest internet registries and manages over nine million domain names, has proposed changing the rules of domain name registration for .ltd.uk, and .plc.uk domains to ensure that each company is entitled to a unique domain name

Nominet decisions may be subject to appeal to the High Court

McDermott Will & Emery
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United Kingdom
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November 29 2011

In Michael Toth v Emirates 2011 EWPCC 18, his Honour Judge Birss QC, refused to strike out an application seeking to overturn a decision of a Nominet appeal panel that the registration of a domain name was abusive within the Nominet Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) Policy

Further CJEU guidance on keyword advertising and trade mark infringement

McDermott Will & Emery
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European Union, United Kingdom
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November 3 2011

In (1) Interflora Inc. (2) Interflora British Unit v (1) Marks & Spencer plc (2) Flowers Direct Online Ltd, Case C-32309 (22 September 2011), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has provided further guidance on circumstances in which use of a registered trade mark as a keyword by a third party advertiser may constitute trade mark infringement

Lifestyle Management Ltd v Frater: domain names and instruments of fraud

McDermott Will & Emery
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United Kingdom
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February 28 2011

Pointing domain names, which are similar to a former principal's website, to websites that closely resembled the home page of the former principal has been found to be an act of passing off

Nominet opens registration of short .uk domains: registered rights sunrise

McDermott Will & Emery
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United Kingdom
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January 25 2011

The initial sunrise period for registration of "short" domain names in the United Kingdom was opened by Nominet, the registry for .uk domain names, on 1 December 2010 and closed on 17 January 2011

The Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd v Meltwater Holding BV: online commercial media monitoring services and the end user licence debate

McDermott Will & Emery
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United Kingdom
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January 25 2011

This ruling from Mrs Justice Proudman confirms that businesses using an online commercial media monitoring service require a licence from the Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd

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