In a decision sure to drive the trademark groups crazy, a one member UDRP panel reject the trademark holders claim to the domain name Segis.com The panel held for the domain holder, despite the complainant having bang on trademark registrations going back as far as 2007. The panel says the Respondent is a college graduate in Republic of Korea and that the disputed domain name was created on … [Read more...]

The UDRP decision on the domain name Wiiu.com has been published by WIPO. It appears the three member panel was very close to  find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH)  had the domain not been owned under privacy. The domain holder was represented by Steven Rinehart of Salt Lake City After all Nintendo didn't file its trademark for Wii until two years after the domain name was registered … [Read more...]

Microsoft gained control of the domain name XboxUno.com the Spanish version of its new Xbox One gaming system. The UDRP was withdrawn over the weekend and Microsoft is now the owner of the domain. Microsoft previously gained control of seven domain names all having the term Xbox One after the domain owner relinquished control over those domains after another UDRP was filed. The domain … [Read more...]

Palace Sports & Entertainment LLC of Auburn Hills, Michigan, lost its bid to grab the domain name Palace.com away from the domain holders Palace Enterprises, NV of New York, which was represented by David Lin of Lewis & Lin, LLC. However the panel failed to find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking which it should have found in our opinion as all the elements were present.  A generic domain, a … [Read more...]

Two UDRP decided days apart by the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) on two very similar domains got completely results. Both UDRP's were brought by the same Complainant BGL Group Limited which has a trademark on the term "COMPARETHEMARKET" In on case the panel held for the trademark holder in the other case the panel held for the domain holder. The domains … [Read more...]

Six Arbitration Panels brought a single UDRP seeking  19 domain names all owned by ICSID Lawyers, LLC and collectively won 18 of the domains. The Complainants are London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) of London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (“United Kingdom”); International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) of Paris, France; Singapore International Arbitration Centre … [Read more...]

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) just lost a UDRP in an attempted grab of the domain name OpenPower.org against White Label Energy GmbH The UDRP decision was originally published in German. Although IBM had a trademark on the term OPEN POWER which predated the domain name registration by some five years, the one member panel noted that IBM abandoned its Open Power product in … [Read more...]