AriGoldberger just successfully defended a UDRP on the domain name Stage.com, from a complaint brought by Specialty Retailers, Inc. which owned a trademark on the term “Stage”, despite the fact that the domain name was parked and that the domain holder offered to sell the domain to the Complainant for hundreds of thousands of dollars. ...
Managed Hosting News Tuesday, 15th May 2012, 16:10:32 Google wins domain name dispute with ‘cyber-squatter’ Search giant Google has been given ownership of more than 750 domain names which had been bought by a ‘cyber-squatter’. Cyber-squatting refers to consumers who purchase domain names in bad faith to profit from a trademark belonging to someone else. ...
Google has seized over 750 domain names from a cybersquatter who used them to drive traffic to a series of “gay interest” websites and now wants Google’s trademark cancelled. The company has won a complaint covering 763 domains that all included the word “google” followed by the name of another company, keyword or celebrity, which ...
Path Media Holdings, LLC (“Complainant”) just suffered what appears to be its 1st loss on a UDRP on its Girls Gone Wild Trademark on the domain name girlsgonewild.name And here’s the most amazing part, the domain holder did not even respond to the complaint. At the end of the day, the domain name at issue ...
Google has obtained control of the Gmail trademark in Germany, according to the German trademark office, and the legal battle for the related domain name is also over, according to Google. When Google introduced Gmail in 2004, it quickly ran into trademark trouble in the U.K. and Germany, where local companies asserted their rights to ...
French lawyer with ICANN, NAF, and WIPO connections helps new TLD applicants file trademarks for prospective top level domains. I’ve chronicled many of the attempts by new gTLD hopefuls to “frontrun” trademarks for new TLDs in the United States. Here are 115 examples. But that’s just in the U.S. system. And it’s not a huge ...
PING golf manufacturer still has a TLD trademark going through the system. Last month I wrote about how the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had caught on to an trademark application for .Ping. It was filed by Karsten Manufacturing, which owns the PING line of golf products. Although the USPTO has a policy of not ...
I’ve made plenty of commotion about companies filing for trademarks on future top level domain names. It always seems that they’re successfully pulling a fast one on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. But after an exhaustive analysis of 115 trademark applications, I’ve actually found that the U.S.P.T.O. is mostly on top of things when ...