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Cybersquatting; typosquatting Facebook’s $2.8 million in damages and domain names

  • Francis Abourizk Lightowlers
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  • Global, USA
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  • May 10 2013

A decision was recently handed down in California awarding Facebook $2.8 million in damages for domain name 'squatting'. The defendants in the

CMS quarterly communications update April 2012

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • Austria, Bulgaria, European Union, Germany, Global, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom
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  • April 30 2012

This edition includes contributions from the United Kingdom, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine

Broadband news

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • March 5 2012

On March 1, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied the motions to hold the consolidated appeal of the FCC Open Internet Order in abeyance

WIPO refuses to order the transfer of worldcup2011.com to the International Rugby Board

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Global
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  • January 12 2012

In Rugby World Cup Ltd v Andreas Gyrre WIPO D2011-1520 (1 November 2011) sole panellist Robert Badgely dismissed the complaint by the International Rugby Board (IRB) against ticket reseller Euroteam AS on the basis that the domain name could not be considered confusingly similar to the IRB’s trade marks RUGBY WORLD CUP and RUGBY WORLD CUP 2011, essentially because the dominant term “rugby” was lacking in the domain name

Yourtrademarkhere.xxx: how your trademark could become associated with the adult entertainment industry

  • Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC
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  • Global
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  • July 1 2011

ICANN, the organization responsible for administering internet domain names, recently approved the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) for use by those in the adult entertainment industry

No pictures please!

  • Schoenherr
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  • Global
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  • June 20 2011

Banning photography at concerts is not so easy

Bad faith registration and use under the UDRP: cumulative... or not?

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • Global
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  • September 28 2010

A. Nattermann & Cie. GmbH (the Complainant), a subsidiary company of Sanofi-aventis, recently lost a complaint filed under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) concerning the domain name (the Domain Name) on the grounds that no bad faith was found at the time of registration

Dolce & Gabbana fails to obtain

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • Global
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  • September 28 2010

In a recent case brought under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), Dolce & Gabbana s.r.l., the well known Italian fashion company, failed to obtain the domain name (the Domain Name), despite its trade marks in the term D&G, as the Respondent, Independent Digital Artists, was able to convince the Panel of its rights and legitimate interests in the Domain Name

Later trade mark rights: risk of reverse domain name hijacking

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • Global
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  • September 28 2010

A recent case decided under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) by a panel from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) clearly underlines the fact that registration of a domain name must generally post-date the complainant's trade mark rights or the complaint will be denied

Transfer of over 1500 domain names

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Global
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  • March 31 2010

In Inter-Continental Hotels Corporation, Six Continents Hotels v Daniel Kirchhof D2009-1661 WIPO, a Uniform Domain- Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) panellist ordered the transfer of over 1500 domain names from an individual registrant, to Six Continents

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