The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) released it annual report yesterday for 2014 and Year to Date numbers through September 2015 for cases it decided under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP") Cases filed ins 2014 were up only 2% from 2013, with 2,634 cases being lodged by trademarks owners claiming abuse of their mark. Country-code top-level domains … [Read more...]
Vertical Axis Holds on to ParkRoyal.com after complainant is denied in UDRP
In a 3 panelist ruling Vertical Axis holds on to ParkRoyal.com but there is no finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. 1. The Parties 1.1 The Complainants are Grupo Costamex, S.A. de C.V. (“Costamex”) of Mexico City, Mexico and Operación y Supervisión de Hoteles, S.A. de C.V. (“Opyssa”) of Cancun, Mexico, represented internally. 1.2 The Respondent is Vertical Axis Inc. of Barbados, … [Read more...]
12 Year Old Dictionary Word, Domain Name, Parlance.com Saved In UDRP
Parlance Corporation lost a UDRP against Dynamo.com on the domain name parlance.com Of course the domain name is also a dictionary word and the panel found "the Complaint fails to establish either bad-faith registration or bad-faith use" so the panel should have found Reverse Domain Name Hijacking but didn't even discuss the issue. Here are the relevant findings by the one member … [Read more...]
Russian Registrar Regtime Ltd. Lose Two Legal Rights Objections To PIR’s .OPR & .Verisign’s .KOM
Regtime Ltd. and Legato Ltd of the Russian Federation just lost two separate Legal Rights Objections at WIPO on the new gTLD strings .OPR and .KOM In The .OPR case the company objected to the Public Interest Registry (PIR) application of .OPR. PIR operates the .Org registry. The second objection was to Verisign's new gTLD application for .Kom which is the more interesting decision in my … [Read more...]
Donuts Beats Back Academy Sports Legal Rights Objection To new gTLD .Academy
Academy, LTD., d/b/a Academy Sports + Outdoors lost is Legal Rights Objection filed against Half Oaks, LLC (a Donuts compny) application for the new gTLD .Academy finding that "the common generic use of the term “academy”, as well as the lack of clear evidence showing widespread public recognition of the Objector’s ACADEMY marks, standing alone, weigh heavily in the Applicant’s favor. In this … [Read more...]
Biotechnology Industry Organization Loses WIPO Legal Rights Objection On New gTLD .Bio
Biotechnology Industry Organization of Washington, lost its Legal Rights Objection filed against Starting Dot applied for new gTLD .bio. Here are the relevance findings by the one member WIPO panel: A fundamental issue in this proceeding is the appropriate recognition of the word “bio” by different sectors of the public, founded on differences in the basic meaning of the word, and on … [Read more...]
Blue Cross Loses Legal Rights Objection To Block the New gTLD .Blue
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association just lost a Legal Rights Objection to Afilias Limited new gTLD application for .Blue Here are the relevant findings by the three member WIPO panel: ""The Applicant has not denied that it was aware of the Objector when it lodged the Application. However, on the evidence which has been produced, the Panel has no reason to doubt the Applicant’s assertion … [Read more...]