The International Trademark Association (INTA) issued what it called a 6 month Bulletin on the results of cases filed under the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) procedure. INTA says that a total of 92 URS cases have been filed to date 88 with the National Arbitration Forum in the United States (NAF) and four with the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC) in Hong … [Read more...]
RMIT University Loses URS On RMIT.Education, To A Parked Page With Links To It
RMIT University of Melbourne, Australia lost its bid to get the domain name RMIT.education suspended through a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding. Its a pretty amazing finding in that the domain holder didn't even respond to the URS, Complainant had a valid trademark, and the domain name is parked and contains links to the school, on the parked page. According to the opinion the … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Wins Another URS On Hello.Photo
Frank Schillings North Sound Names has won another Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) on the domain name Hello.Photo to Complainant, HOLA S.L. of Madrid, Spain, who has trademarked “HELLO!”, "in one or more countries". John Berryhill, represented North Sound Names. Omar Haydar, the examiner found: The Respondent has registered the domain name , and is the owner of many other domain names, … [Read more...]
Principal Financial Loses URS On Principal.Guru
Principal Financial Services,just lost a Uniform Resolution Proceeding on the domain name Principal.Guru The company filed a separate URS on the domain names principal.services principal.center Which case has not been decided yet but I would not expect that to go any better for Principal than this URS. The record shows Respondent's use of the disputed domain name was to host a … [Read more...]
Have Trademark Holders Given Up On The URS? Last 17 Disputes Filed, 15 Were UDRP’s
Have trademark holders given up on the Uniform Resolution Service? The URS is something that trademark holders and their representative pushed for at ICANN for years. A cheap, quick take down on obviously trademark infringing new gTLD domain registrations. Although the URS is exactly that a much cheaper and quicker process than a UDRP, if a trademark holder wins a URS the domain … [Read more...]
Sci.Technology Suspended in URS “Sci” is not a Generic Term but Rather the Trademark”
The new gTLD domain name sci.technology was ordered suspended by a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) examiner. The Complainant SANMINA CORPORATION of San Jose, California filed the URS complaint based on its U.S. Trademark Registration issued June 2, 1992, on the term "SCI" (the "Trademark"). The Trademark is for "manufacturing of electrical, electronic, electromechanical and mechanical … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Hit With Another URS On Two .Link Domains
Frank Schilling's North Sound Names is the subject of a second URS filing over two domain names it registered of Uniregistry strings, aix.link and db2.link. North Sound Names already successfully defended its first URS case filed against it, on Finn.Link North Sound reportedly registered some 43,000 domain names in extensions owned by Uniregistry with .Link domains being heavily … [Read more...]