Archive for the ‘Trademarks’ Category
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
As a result of ICANN’s IDN ccTLD Fast Track process, which was launched in November of last year, a number of new ccIDNs (Country Code Internationalized Domain Names) have been successfully added to the root including: China (.中国, .中國), Egypt (.مصر), Hong Kong (.香港 ), Russia (.рф), Saudi Arabia (.السعودية), ...
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
Google recently announced that starting September 14, 2010, it will begin to allow advertisers in most European countries to use competitors’ trademarks when bidding for online ads. This shift in European policy doesn’t come as a complete surprise as the European Court of Justice (ECJ) sided with Google in the ...
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
In a recent survey of MarkMonitor’s global corporate client base*, nearly 22% of respondents stated that their companies are intending to apply for a new gTLD.
Twenty-three percent stated that their companies did not intend to apply for a new gTLD, while more than 55% still did not know which route ...
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Monday, May 3rd, 2010
Last week, ICANN’s Tina Dam appeared on CNN’s, “Qwest Means Business” discussing the importance of IDN ccTLDs.
When asked whether having non-Latin domain names might contribute to greater confusion, Tina Dam stated that she did not see any reason why non-native speakers would need to access websites in other languages. Of ...
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Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
After almost 3 years of numerous reports, comment periods and multiple implementation plans, ICANN has finally approved the delegation of the first set of IDN ccTLDs as a result of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process.
Specifically, the ICANN Board approved:
Delegation of the .рф ("R.F.") domain representing the Russian Federation to ...
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
In the past few months, a flurry of gift card scams leveraging such high-profile brands as Best Buy, Whole Foods and IKEA have emerged on Facebook. These scams often use the brand’s logo, website URL, or general “look and feel” on Facebook “fan” pages to give the impression that these ...
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
In a landmark judgment issued this past Tuesday, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that Google* is not liable for trademark infringement when an advertiser purchases a keyword based on a competitor’s trademark to trigger a search ad, so long as it removes infringing ads promptly when notified by ...
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Online fakes can be a lucrative business and difficult to crack down on, due to the ease and low-cost of setting up multiple virtual storefronts and the ability to obfuscate an operation’s identity. A federal lawsuit filed on March 1, 2010 by Polo Ralph Lauren and VF Corp. illustrates these ...
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
To say that it’s been quite a year in the world of domain names would be an understatement. From compromised ccTLD registries, to the delay of new gTLDs, some of the events of the past year have been surprising, while others could easily have been predicted.
Regardless of whether you could ...
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Friday, October 16th, 2009
In 1999, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names (“ICANN”) developed a policy to resolve disputes between trademark owners and registrants of domain names. This
policy, the UDRP, set out procedures, rules and guidelines that govern the process whereby an aggrieved trademark owner could petition an appointed arbitrator or group ...
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