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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

Vulnerability of insufficiently well-known trade marks

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Global
  • -
  • February 26 2010

In Office Holdings Ltd v Hocu To d.o.o. and Office Shoes d.o.o. 2009 D2009-1277 WIPO, it was concluded that a proprietor of trade marks in central and eastern Europe had a legitimate interest in a corresponding domain name even though it was apparent that the trade marks and domain name had been chosen in order to mimic an earlier trade mark registered elsewhere in Europe

Is this a record? 1,519 domain names transferred by one WIPO decision

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • Global
  • -
  • February 5 2010

Inter-Continental Hotels Corporation and Six Continents Hotels, Inc., which are part of the same group of companies, have succeeded in having 1,519 domain names transferred as a result of a single domain name complaint

Failed UDRP cases

  • Davies Collison Cave
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  • Global
  • -
  • December 15 2009

Ten years of operation of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) was celebrated at a conference at the headquarters of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva last month

Google: the benign monopolist?

  • White & Case LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • November 20 2009

There is something about copyright which evokes passion

Famous names and parking sites

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Global
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  • July 29 2009

In WIPO Case No. D2009-0563 Jim Carrey v BWI Domains (16 June 2009) single panellist Alistair Payne had little trouble deciding that the registration and resolution of the domain name jimcarrey.com to a parking site from which the registrant derived pay-per-click revenue constituted bad faith

Brand protection online

  • Howes Percival LLP
  • -
  • Global, United Kingdom
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  • May 20 2009

The use of keywords andor metatags is very much commonplace in the promotion of a business online via search engines such as Google and Yahoo!

Resellerslegitimate use of third party marks

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • March 27 2009

In Oracle International Corporation v Contractors Network Ltd 2008 D2008-1493 World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the software giant, Oracle International, failed in its bid to have the disputed domain name oraclecontractors

Latest attempt to shackle the scourge of the file-sharing seas

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • Global, Sweden
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  • March 4 2009

One of the most significant and much awaited copyright disputes commenced last month in Stockholm, Sweden

The use of a manufacturer's trade mark in a domain name by a reseller

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
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  • Global
  • -
  • January 30 2009

A recent decision of a panel made up of three panellists under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP") deals with interesting issues concerning the use of a manufacturer's trade mark by a dealer or reseller