Legal

The Pirate Bay was down for the past two days. I was starting to get worried even though the Pirate Bay team had announced that the downtime was caused by a Power Distribution Unit (PDU) …

Complainant was JPI Commercial, LLC from Minnesota, USA. Respondent was Alan Capalditallon from United Kingdom. Complainant, a pharmaceutical company, owns numerous US and EU trademark registrations for XYREM, used in connection with various pharmaceutical goods …

The Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) and .eu registry EURid are running a special fee reduction to make the .eu Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process even more accessible to the European public. EURid is sponsoring the .eu …

EURid, the European Registry of Internet Domain Names, manages the .eu top-level Internet domain under contract to the European Commission. EURid publishes the .eu identity magazine twice a year. The magazine contains articles on general …

NameMedia, that owns Afternic, launched NameFind.com today, a new website that is a collaborative, one-stop, name generation tool. NameFind is a discovery and acquisition tool that gives entrepreneurs the information they need when they are making …

A three-member Panel denied the UDRP complaint for the domain name ngf.com. Complainant was the National Golf Foundation, Inc. and Respondent was Mediablue, represented by Ari Goldberger of ESQwire.com Law Firm. The Complaint was submitted …

Complainant Grandville Academic Team Boosters, from the Grandville High School, submitted a Complaint to the National Arbitration Forum for the domain name robodawgs.com. Respondent was a former volunteer coach with at the Grandville High School …

When a Complainant files a UDRP complaint, it has to choose between transferring the disputed domain name and canceling the domain name. The concerned registrar will implement the Panel’s decision 10 business days after it receives …

The Complainant was Advocracy, SL based in Madrid, Spain and the Respondent was Gustavo Federico Block also based in Madrid, Spain so Spanish was the language of these proceedings. The Respondent registered the disputed domain name …

At WIPO the complaint for the domain name AngelCare.com was denied while the Panel admitted in the decision that content of parked websites is in general automatically generated. The Panel didn’t accept Complainant’s accusations of …

Complainant, Avaya Inc., a company located in Basking Ridge, NJ, USA, submitted a Complaint to the National Arbitration Forum on July 31, 2012 for the domain name ayava.us that was registered in 2006 by Respondent …

A UDRP complaint for windowsforums.com was denied at the National Arbitration Forum. One would expect Microsoft to be the Complainant but it wasn’t. The Panel decided that this was a business/contractual dispute that fell outside …

This was the second UDRP complaint for a criticism website that was denied today at the National Arbitration Forum after a website build by a law firm survived a UDRP complaint at NAF. It seems that …

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center submitted a Complaint to the National Arbitration Forum on July 24, 2012 for the domain name CedarsSinaiUnpaidWages.com. Respondent was the Initiative Legal Group. The disputed domain name was registered on July 12, …