Category: trademark

Spiderwick WIPO

One of the latest published decisions from WIPO covers a film currently showing at the US box office – Spiderwick Chronicles. The domain in question is spiderwickmovie.com You can read the decision here Interestingly enough the registrant not only responded but agreed to transferring the domain but not to infringing IP per se: 4. Parties’… Continue reading Spiderwick WIPO

Cybersquatters Hand Over Bebo.ie

I’ve spoken about cybersquatting in the IE namespace in the past. One of the domains that had been nabbed by EUBrowser was bebo.ie. While it’s still pointing to their feeble attempt at explaining their connection to the name the whois has been updated:  whois bebo.ie % Rights restricted by copyright; http://www.domainregistry.ie/copyright.html% Do not remove this… Continue reading Cybersquatters Hand Over Bebo.ie

Sony Wins UDRP

The only UDRP decision that caught my attention this morning concerned Sony. The domain in question was sonyericsson.tv It’s not a particularly exciting decision, as the domain is a clear trademark squat. You can read the full decision here

Facebook Wins WIPO Decision

Facebook, the social networking site that is “flavour de jour”, has won a WIPO UDRP case. The decision isn’t that exciting, as the registrant did not respond. The domain face-book.com is currently parked, but will probably move in the next few days/ weeks.

Trademark Infringement Is Due To Negligence

What do Bebo and Adidas have in common? At first glance, probably very little, however they’ve both fallen prey to an Irish based domain squatting operation based in Dublin’s Digital Hub. Gabor Varga seems to think that he is a legitimate businessman, whereas trademark holders and their legal teams would probably have a very different… Continue reading Trademark Infringement Is Due To Negligence

The Battle Over Whois Policy Continues

One of the sessions I attended at the ICANN meeting in Lisbon earlier this year centred on whois. It became abundantly clear to me that the various stakeholders had very different views and objectives on how to treat and publish registrant data. I wouldn’t care to get into the finer points of the arguments, as… Continue reading The Battle Over Whois Policy Continues

Defending the indefensible – EUBrowser Denies CyberSquatting

Today’s Irish edition of the Sunday Times has an article on the cybersquatters referred to commonly as “EUBrowser” entitled “Cybersquat Firm Lurks in Digital Hub”. I’ve mentioned them in the past, as they lost several WIPO cases including adidas.ie, buy-sell.ie and a couple of Google squats (googl.ie and googel.ie) that were settled before WIPO had… Continue reading Defending the indefensible – EUBrowser Denies CyberSquatting

ICANN Investigating Domain Tasting

ICANN has announced that it is seeking input and feedback on the topic of domain tasting. (See their announcement for full details) Interestingly enough Michael Gilmour published an article a couple of days ago covering the same topic – “Why domain tasting is great!“, which will probably raise a few hackles! One point that in… Continue reading ICANN Investigating Domain Tasting

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