Legal

Barack Obama’s “Organizing For Action” failed to win a UDRP complaint for the domain name OrganizingForAction.com and OrganizingForAction.org at the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) after failing last week to get OrganizingForAction.net at NAF again. Pursuant …

Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC) and ICANN have signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing ADNDRC as a Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) provider. ICANN claims that ADNDRC is well known to the Internet …

Ford Motor Company filled on March 21, 2013 for a trademark for the term ‘inflatable light urban vehicle’ (iLuv) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The company has also filed another application for the …

ICANN published the final list of 263 objections that have passed the Dispute Resolution Service Providers’ (DRSPs) administrative review: 67 String Confusion Objections 69 Existing Legal Rights Objections 23 Limited Public Interest Objections 104 Community …

The WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center published its 2012 review on UDRP called “Internet Domain Name Dispute Resolution”. In 2012, trademark holders filed a record 2,884 cybersquatting cases covering 5,084 Internet domain names with the …

Paypal, Inc. filed a UDRP complaint at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The complaint was filed for the domain name, MyPaypal.com. The domain was registered in January 2000 and the current owner is from New …

Getty Images, Inc. filed a UDRP complaint at the National Arbitration Forum (NAF). The complaint was filed for the domain name, GettyImage.com. The domain was registered in July 2001, meaning that the company waited almost …

Twitter, Inc. won the domain name Twitter.org at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. The owner was accueil des solutions inc of Vancouver, Canada, did not reply to the Complainant’s contentions. The Center appointed Richard Tan as the …

92 more objections were filed at the International Chamber of Commerce for new gTLD strings. The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) received the objections on March 12 and 13, 2013 and these were posted on the …

Barack Obama’s “Organizing For Action” failed to win a UDRP complaint for the domain name OrganizingForAction.net at the National Arbitration Forum. Panelist Hon. Karl V. Fink (Ret.) denied the complaint because the Complainant didn’t have …

ICANN and IBM negotiated the terms for a proposed statement of work for operation of the Sunrise and Trademark Claims services offered by the Trademark Clearinghouse. The New gTLD Program Committee has reviewed the terms …

This past week 21 new objections were filed at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center for new gTLD strings. The WIPO center received the objections on March 13, 2013 and these were posted on the …

28 objections were filed at the International Chamber of Commerce for new gTLD strings. The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) received the objections on March 12 and 13, 2013 and these were posted on the ICC …

ICANN is providing the latest revision of the previously posted “Revised New gTLD Registry Agreement” for the community’s information and review. Clean [PDF, 458 KB] Redline [PDF, 455 KB] Summary of Changes [PDF, 155 KB] …