Saturday, August 27th, 2011
In a WIPO case decided July 25th by sole panelist James A. Barker, he stated “The Panel is in little doubt that the Respondent lacks rights or legitimate interests, and has registered and used the disputed domain names in bad faith. Among other things, the Respondent has provided no evidence of having rights or legitimate
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
A U.S. judge said parts of a false advertising lawsuit can proceed against online coupon distributor Groupon. Groupon allegedly buys tour-related keywords on Google’s AdWords service, but often does not actually offer tour coupons when customers arrive...
Monday, August 22nd, 2011
Four days after Dengate Thrush finished his term as ICANN chairman, he joined a London company called Top Level Domain Holdings that plans to buy new TLDs created by the plan and offer Internet registry services. Dengate...
Monday, August 22nd, 2011
In a case decided August 2nd by Sole Panelist, Christopher S. Gibson, in the case of Puget Sound Software, LLC v. A. Rahman, found at http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2011-0944, it was decided that even though the Respondent was trading on...
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
Facebook Inc. says it’s discovered the “authentic contract” signed by its chief executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg, and Paul Ceglia, the western New York man who claims he’s entitled to part-ownership of the company. Facebook attached a blurry...
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Lawyers for the most storied brands in the United States are scrambling to prevent an x-rated rip-off of an invaluable asset: corporate Web addresses. ICM Registry says it has received over 900,000 “expressions of interest” from companies...
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Drowning In Liquidity? Here’s a term I’ve heard for the first time: Liquidity Trap. If you start paying attention, you’ll hear the term more frequently. You’ll also start observing the term is sometimes tied to Keynesian economics;...
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
While increasing numbers of savvy Internet users may Tweet and use Facebook, nearly all adults who go online still use e-mail and search engines, a new survey released Tuesday found. The latest survey released by the Pew...
Sunday, August 7th, 2011
Facebook Inc. said its inspection of computers turned over by Paul Ceglia, the western New York man who claims he’s entitled to half of Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg’s holdings in the social-networking company, shows “smoking gun”...