Archive for May, 2009
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
The IRT (Implementation and Recommendation Team), which was formed by ICANN’s Intellectual Property Constituency, has identified a number of proposed solutions to address trademark protection issues and their final report will be published on May 29th.
Their proposed solutions in the last draft included:
IP Clearinghouse, Globally Protected Marks List and ...
Posted in Domains, ICANN, Trademarks, gTLDs | No Comments »
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
The global software piracy rate rose to 41% in 2008 from 38% in 2007, costing rights owners an exchange-rate adjusted $50 billion, according to a joint study between the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and IDC released last week. One of the factors driving greater piracy is increased high-speed Internet access, ...
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
The recent news from the primordial alphabet soup that is the United States government and ICANN is that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) just issued a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) seeking comments about the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) with ICANN and its scheduled expiration in September 2009. Comments ...
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
Most major brands suffer some type of online attacks but few use those attacks as opportunities to educate their customers.
This week, our customer Facebook experienced a high-profile phishing attack. Coincidentally, the attack just barely preceded our announcement that Facebook was expanding their relationship with MarkMonitor.
Facebook made the proverbial lemonade ...
Posted in Phishing, Security | No Comments »
