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Category: Domain Names

Posted on March 11, 2023 Domain Names

Domain names and fair use

The continuum of defenses to claims sounding in trademark that runs from free speech, through fair use to nominative fair use is a longtime topic... Read more

Posted on February 13, 2023 Domain Names

Wake up and smell the music!

There was an important decision in the TTAB — so important that it’s “precedential” even, if you can imagine!  As John Welch explains, the TTAB... Read more

Posted on February 4, 2023 Domain Names

Mission Accomplia

The silly Accomplia sabre-rattling is over. Per the EFF, Sanofi-Aventis backed down: “Under terms of Tuesday’s settlement, AcompliaReport.com keeps its domain name, as long as... Read more

Posted on January 8, 2023 Domain Names

Susan Crawford: Why I Voted For XXX

Originally posted 2007-03-31 23:09:23. Republished by Blog Post Promoter. Susan Crawford explains, at considerable length, why she voted with the minority at ICANN on the... Read more

Posted on December 15, 2022 Domain Names

Yes, Virginia, domain names do matter

That’s one thing I learned at the New York Intellectual Property Law Association’s “Hot Topics in” all kinds of stuff CLE seminar last Wednesday, July... Read more

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Posted on November 20, 2022 Domain Names Secondary Liability

Squatting not like tango; it doesn’t take two

Venkat Balasubramani, over at Eric Goldman’s place, reports on another court suggesting that there is no such thing as contributory cybersquatting, in a case that illuminates... Read more

Posted on September 28, 2022 Domain Names

Beyond fair use

We’re a little obsessed here with the rights of “unauthorized” resellers to use the trademarks that describe the stuff they’re reselling.  So this UK domain... Read more

Posted on July 24, 2021 Domain Names

There’s NoSpace like home

At least for MySpace.com, which has lost a key domain name battle in England over the domain myspace.co.uk. According to Bell Denning, solicitors for the... Read more

Posted on July 16, 2021July 26, 2021 Domain Names

Petty taxes

Marty Schwimmer prints an excerpt from this story, about a guy who wants to buy a domain name to start up a new business, but... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 Domain Names

The odd inversion of the trademark “rights in gross” conundrum (Best of 2016)

First posted on August 18, 2016. Is reselling domain names a violation of the UDRP? At his blog, Gerald “Mr. UDRP” Levine lays out the... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 Domain Names

“Domain Name Arbitration”: An Old Testament for a New Body of Law

Internet law, “we” used to say, is a young man’s game.  We stopped saying it though — not because political correctness mandates that we say “young person,”... Read more

Posted on May 25, 2021 Domain Names

Leo the Loser

John Welch keeps us up to date on the latest smashing adventures of trademark gadfly and general pain in the caboose Leo Stoller. Originally posted... Read more

Posted on April 14, 2021May 25, 2021 Domain Names

Master your domain

A primer on domain name arbitration under the UDRP. Originally posted 2007-01-23 12:15:41. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more

Posted on November 17, 2020 Domain Names

The odd inversion of the trademark “rights in gross” conundrum

Is reselling domain names a violation of the UDRP? At his blog, Gerald “Mr. UDRP” Levine lays out the question, and then answers it plain... Read more

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