Firefly Digital , a Web site design, development and hosting company, filed a federal lawsuit against Google last week, alleging the Internet search engine giant infringed on two of its registered trademarks. The trademarks are for its “Website Gadget,” a content management system, and “Gadget,” a user-friendly application that works with its “Website Gadget.” The company received a state … [Read more...]
What’s A Worse Use: A Parked Page Or A Spoofed Site? Guess Which One WIPO Picked?
In a WIPO decision today a sole panelist denied a trademark holders complaint to transfer a domain that matched its trademark , even through the domain was used to spoof the official site of the trademark holder with the same look and feel of the trademark's holders page. The domain in question is Validas.com The trademark did not exist when the domain was registered but the domain was … [Read more...]
Can A Company Selling PPC Ads Eliminate Liability For Click Fraud By Just Saying So?
In an interesting case which may have a long term impact on online advertising, Facebook filed a motion to dismiss in a case where several advertisers sued Facebook for click fraud last year. Facebook argues that the case should be dismissed because its contract with Advertisers states that advertisers have to pay for all clicks, regardless of whether they are valid or not. According to … [Read more...]
CADNA Reports On Its Meeting In Support Of The Utah Cybersquatting Bill
While we were meeting and partying at Domainfest, The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA), held a meeting on Friday in Washigton, featuring Keynote speaker, Utah State Senate Stephen Urquhart who presented his "Utah E-Commerce Integrity Act", ""which is considered a harbinger for changes to the federal Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA)."" The Utah E-Commerce … [Read more...]
Another Generic Domain, LawSociety.com, Gets Taken Away In A WIPO Making It On My Worst Of 2010 List
In a ruling this week, a three member WIPO Panel gave a generic term, LawSociety.com to a group in the UK based off a trademark for "The Law Society" Here are the findings from the panel: ""The Complainant in this case was "the representative and regulatory body for the solicitors’ branch of the legal profession in England and Wales. It was founded in 1825 under the name of “The Law … [Read more...]
CADNA Is Bringing The Utah Cybersquatting Bill To Washington On Friday To Criminalize Domaning
The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) is holding an event in Washington DC Friday to bring the proposed Utah trademark law that we wrote about a month ago to a federal level, or Snow Bill 2. If you look at the inviation and agenda of this meeting you will see that CADNA is going to be pushing hard to get the Utah bill enacted as a precursor to ACPA amendments that define … [Read more...]
No Decision On Kentucky Domain Seizure Case; So Now We Have To Wait Until March
The Kentucky Supreme Court released decisions on several cases yesterday, as it was scheduled to do. While it was widely expected to issue a ruling on the Domain seizure case, it did not, which means according to its calendar, the next possible date for a decision in the matter will be in late March, 2010. … [Read more...]