Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018
The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) has published its proposed UDRP REFORM POLICY PLATFORM. I believe this to be a big step forward, if adopted by ICANN, in providing safeguards for both Trademark Complainants and Domain Investor Respondents. It basically seeks transparency and uniformity in panels and decision making by Dispute Resolution Providers (DRPs), primarily, but
Monday, January 15th, 2018
The NAF continues to provide a rather lackluster performance when it comes to being “fair and balanced” between Trademark holders that pay their fees and Domain Investors who find themselves having to defend spurious UDRP Actions. There...
Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
Six months ago, we labeled Adam Taylor as a Superstar for Domain Investors. He had denied 9 complaints and had found 6 of the Complainants guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) or Abuse of the Process of...
Wednesday, December 13th, 2017
In a recent decision by a WIPO panel, http://Decision D2017-1782.doc the panel determined that not all controversies surrounding domain names and trademark confusion are conducive to bringing a UDRP action. In its deliberations, the panel made the following...
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
Our client, AbdulBasit Makrani, succeeded in defending his registration of PrintFactory.com. He had it parked after registering it late last year. Due to the generic use of the definitive words “Print” and “Factory”, the Panel was properly under...
Monday, July 10th, 2017
Last week we published our semi-annual TOP 10 LIST OF WIPO PANELISTS. This week we traditionally publish our Top 10 List of NAF Panelists, but with a few exceptions, it continues to show a rather lackluster performance...
Friday, July 7th, 2017
Our Semi-annual survey of WIPO panelists revealed a shocking development. In the last 6 months, one WIPO Panelist has found 6 Complainants guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking! This is a new record and possible cause for...
Friday, April 14th, 2017
A Moultonborough man has filed a medical malpractice suit, claiming his mother suffered a “painful, horrific and unnecessary death” because four different doctors were unable to diagnose that a pill stuck in her throat was burning a...
Thursday, April 13th, 2017
I noticed recently that a number of folks misuse the word “lose” by confusing it with “loose”. It occurred to me that English is really a very arbitrary language as evidenced by these two words. While...
Friday, January 13th, 2017
Last week we published our semi-annual TOP 10 LIST OF WIPO PANELISTS. This week we traditionally publish our Top 10 List of NAF Panelists, but frankly, we were hard-pressed to find 10 top panelists. In addition, in...
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