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Twitter issues new guidelines on using its mark

  • Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • December 2 2010

Tweet this: Twitter has issued new guidelines for those who use the company's name, trademark, and other intellectual property

.xxx domain names to become available from September 2011

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Global
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  • June 15 2011

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers recently approved the use of the .xxx suffix as a top-level domain name space, to be used by the online adult entertainment industry

How to protect your brand from incursion by adult entertainment sites

  • Lane Powell PC
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  • Global
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  • June 13 2011

While it may seem that your business is at capacity dealing with .com, .net, .org, and all the other Web suffixes (also known as “top-level domains”) that are already out there, this year a new Web suffix will be introduced .xxx, which will be targeted at the adult entertainment industry

Preparing trademark clients for the new unlimited top level domains

  • Lewis and Roca LLP
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  • Global
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  • September 30 2011

On June 20, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers authorized the launch of a new program to permit qualified domain name registrars to apply for any string of characters “after-the-dot”

UDRP Panel denies Lady Gaga&x2019;s request to transfer ladygaga.org

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • Global
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  • October 19 2011

A Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) Panel denied Lady Gaga's request for transfer of the domain name ladygaga.org from a third party who had registered the domain name and was using it as a fan site

New internet domains are coming what you should do

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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  • Global
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  • July 8 2011

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the entity responsible for management of the Internet domain name system (DNS), has approved major changes in the system of top-level domains (TLDs) that will lead to the approval of potentially thousands of new domains

Protecting trademarks from registration on the ".xxx" domain

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
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  • Canada, Global
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  • August 19 2011

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the international non-profit organization charged with creating policies for use of the internet, recently approved the internet domain “.xxx” for use specifically by the adult entertainment industry

New sponsored top-level domain name: managing the .xxx transition

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Global
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  • June 30 2011

According to the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN’s) approved plan to increase the number of generic top-level domains (gTLD) a new type of Sponsored Top-Level Domain Name (sTLD) is expected to come into effect by the end of 2011

Protecting trademarks in the new .xxx domain name release

  • Barnes & Thornburg LLP
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  • Global
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  • May 10 2011

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is set to release the new .xxx top level domain intended for use by the adult entertainment industry later this year

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