The UDRP rulings get nutter and more inconsistent by the day and today a one member panel denied PNC Financial Services Group, Inc which owns and operates PNC Bank on 9 domains all containing the term PTCbank even though the domains were parked and the domain owner used a logo on the parked domains that a copy of Complainant’s “PowerLink” logo and has the same colors as those used in Complainant’s … [Read more...]

Spielwarenmesse eG of Nürnberg, Germany,  has lost its bid to grab the domain name spielwarenmesse.com which is ToyFair in German in a UDRP away from Frank Schilling's Name Administration which was represented as always by John Berryhill. Here are the relevant fact and findings by the three member panel: The Complainant, Spielwarenmesse eG, is a German cooperative which has been organising a … [Read more...]

Yahoo! was awarded 33 domain names today in a single UDRP The decision issued by one of the newer UDRP providers, the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) and included many typos of Yahoo products including Rocket Mail, a company Yahoo acquired fro $92 million;  Ymail and Flickr as well as a few non-typo domain names including LoveYahoo.com; YahooPhoto.com and YahooArticle.com: Here are all the … [Read more...]

WowWe, Inc. of The Woodlands, Texas, just lost a UDRP decision on the domain name wowwe.com Here are the relevant findings form the one member panel: "Complainant WowWe, Inc. owns U.S. Trademark Registration No. 4057342 for the mark WOWWE, as used in connection with the “provisioning of video conference services, electronic mail services, and video messaging services”. The registration … [Read more...]

The New Jersey Turnpike Authority just lost a UDRP on the domain names GardenStateParkway.com and NYturnpike.com because the panelist found the Authority did not have "common law rights" to the terms Garden State Parkway or  and NJ Turnpike and for some reason the state didn't apply for a trademark on either roadway until 2001 and 2011 respectively Yikes As an ex-New Yorker I can say few … [Read more...]

D1 Sports Holdings, LLC just lost a UDRP on D1sports.com Simply stated the trademark holder didn't get their TM until 2004, the domain name was registered in 2001. As it should have been, game over. Here is the relevant facts and finding from the one member panel: Complainant owns trademark registrations for DI, the earliest being registration number 2,877,559, whose registration … [Read more...]

Long before American Idol, and America's Got Talent, there was The Gong Show. The last time original episode on of the Gong show appeared on Network Television it was 1989,  well before the Internet, and well before the 1st domain name was registered. Today an UDRP was filed on the domain name  GongShow.com. The domain name GongShow.com has an  original registration date of October 7th … [Read more...]