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Later trade mark rights: risk of reverse domain name hijacking

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • 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

Shrugged off for lack of evidence

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • June 30 2011

In two recent cases decided under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), the same Panel from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), ordered transfer of the domain name and denied transfer of the domain name

Insurance company's interests ensured by a dose of creativity

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • September 30 2011

In a recent decision under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, (the UDRP) a single-member Panel ruled that the registration and use of a disputed domain name incorporating a trade mark without any reasonable justification was sufficiently strong evidence of bad faith

Hotel lost for descriptive words (and one letter)

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • September 30 2011

In a recent case decided under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, (UDRP) a Panel denied transfer of a series of seven Domain Names incorporating a single letter trade mark and another one incorporating a descriptive portion of another of the Complainant's trade marks, citing lack of confusing similarity as the principal cause, while acknowledging that the other requirements of the UDRP were satisfied

Renown on renewal

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • September 30 2011

Puget Sound Software (the Complainant), an online technical support company based in the United States, recently lost a Complaint under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) against A. Rahman, an individual residing in Detroit, concerning the domain name (the Domain Name), on grounds that no bad faith was found at the time of registration

Less than rosy outcome for law firm

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • August 19 2011

A set of related Complaints recently filed under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) by partners from the law firm Proskauer Rose LLP for the transfer of domain names containing their personal names were recently rejected because the Panel decided that the Complainants did not have a trade mark in their names

Unsuccessful harvest for the Champagne domain

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • France, Global
  • -
  • August 19 2011

The Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne (CIVC, the representative body of French Champagne producers), a body established by statute under the laws of France, recently lost a Complaint filed under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • August 19 2011

In a case decided under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), a Panel from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) recently denied transfer of the domain name (the Domain Name

bwin fights typosquatting and wins it all

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • September 30 2011

bwin.party services (the Complainant), an Austrian company belonging to the bwin group, recently won two separate Complaints filed under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO

Karen Millen Fashions' case ripped to pieces

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • October 28 2011

Karen Millen Fashions learned the hard way that obtaining the transfer of a domain name under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) requires more than simple assertions and the provision of actual evidence is necessary, even when the case looks like a slam dunk