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Launch of new gTLDs and the Trade Mark Clearinghouse (TMCH)

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • April 3 2013

This note sets out to provide you with the key facts about the TMCH, the background to the TMCH, how Hogan Lovells can assist and, at this stage

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

Free speech: settled rules or context-based

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 28 2011

Equality Charter School, Inc (the Complainant), a charter school based in New York, recently lost a Complaint under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) against Mona Davids (the Respondent), an individual also residing in New York, concerning the domain name (the Domain Name), on the grounds that the Complainant failed to establish any of the requirements of lack of rights or legitimate interests and bad faith of paragraph 4(a)(ii) and 4(a)(iii) of the UDRP

Lady Gaga left poker faced after failed UDRP

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • USA
  • -
  • October 28 2011

The flamboyant singer known as Lady Gaga is becoming well known for her litigious tendencies

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

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

Shrugged off for lack of evidence

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • 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

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