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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

Protect your trademark online: global Trademark Clearinghouse to begin accepting submissions

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • March 11 2013

On March 26, 2013, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will begin to allow trademark owners to submit their marks for

Protecting your rights: new gTLD applications

  • Polsinelli Shughart PC
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  • Global, USA
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  • June 26 2012

In June 2011, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved a program to expand the Internet's domain name system by introducing new generic top-level domain names

ICANN reveals list of 1,930 applications for generic top-level domain names (GTLDs) that may include .yourbrand, .yourproduct, or .yourindustry

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • June 13 2012

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers this morning released the list of 1,930 generic top-level domain names that entrepreneurs and others have applied to create and operate on the Internet

Planning for proliferation: delays in the expansion of generic top level domain names create additional time to protect your company’s rights

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • May 2 2012

As you may have heard, the internet is moving beyond familiar generic top level domains like .com, .org, and .net and adding hundreds of new gTLDs, like .eco, .NYC, .Canon, .YourBrand, or .Anything

Domain name disputes set all-time record

  • Duane Morris LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • March 13 2012

One might think that as the Internet matures, domain name disputes might dissipate

WIPO named exclusive arbitrator of “legal rights objections” for new gTLD program

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Global, USA
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  • February 29 2012

ICANN has recently appointed the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to be the exclusive provider of dispute resolution services when a third party files a formal “Legal Rights Objection” or “LRO” to a pending application under the new gTLD program

International organizations join the opposition to ICANN’s new gTLD program

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Global, USA
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  • December 20 2011

ICANN will start accepting applications for new gTLDs on January 12, 2012

Is your company ready for ".anything"?

  • Fish & Richardson PC
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  • Global, USA
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  • December 15 2011

The Internet as we know it may soon be changing forever

Intellectual property advisory: Senate holds hearing on the new generic top-level domain program

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • December 12 2011

On December 8, 2011, The United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation held a full committee hearing to examine the merits and implications of the New gTLD Program and ICANN’s continuing efforts to address concerns raised by the Internet community