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Category: Domain Names

Posted on October 13, 2019 Domain Names

Trademark clearinghouse — Brilliant, right?

Domain-name stuff makes me dizzy.  It could be all those acronyms. Or it could be the troubling way disputes are handled under the UDRP, at... Read more

Posted on December 24, 2018January 28, 2019 Domain Names

It’s all over, Uncle Leo

Leo Stoller’s “IP portfolio” has been pronged with the proverbial fork:  Here’s the official press release. Originally posted 2007-08-21 00:15:21. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more

Posted on July 14, 2017 Domain Names

Who’s yer daddy?

Marc Randazza does a great job in explaining, and suggesting at least one answer to the question, “Is GoDaddy a Cybersquatter?” Originally posted 2012-08-06 17:28:25.... Read more

Posted on October 21, 2016October 21, 2016 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 23, 2016March 2, 2016 Domain Names

Generic genericness

What is “generic genericness”?  I just coined the phrase.  It refers, I maintain, to a genericness defense against infringement made by the junior user of... Read more

Matthew David Brozik
Posted on November 16, 2015 Domain Names

dot… Pineapple?

LoC got wind—and then a copy—of this letter, dated as of the date of this post, to ICANN in support of the creation of a... Read more

Posted on November 16, 2015 Domain Names

Merchant of Baloney

Hilarious posting on John Welch’s TTAB Blog about what looks like PTO connivance in the wild and wacky career of would-be trademark king Leo “Likelihood of... Read more

Posted on January 21, 2015 Domain Names

Best of 2007: Tastefully done

Posted on July 20, 2007. Brett Trout has a primer on “domain tasting” and its unsavory accompaniments. This is one of the “emerging issues” —... Read more

Posted on April 28, 2014May 2, 2014 Domain Names

The domain game

I don’t do enough domain-name dispute resolution work under the UDRP to even pretend to be a UDRP maven, but I do know a couple... Read more

Posted on February 10, 2014December 28, 2014 Domain Names

Domain names only, please — if that

When is a UDRP claim more, and less, than a UDRP claim?  William Morris reports: The Panel spent considerable effort recounting the facts and allegations... Read more

Posted on December 31, 2013May 19, 2014 Domain Names

Best of 2013: Yes, Virginia, domain names do matter

First published on July 19, 2013. That’s one thing I learned at the New York Intellectual Property Law Association’s “Hot Topics in” all kinds of... Read more

Matthew David Brozik
Posted on December 9, 2013October 18, 2016 Domain Names

On context at the intersection of mass tort litigation and intellectual property.

There isn’t much of an intersection of mass tort litigation and intellectual property law, but here’s a tidbit that falls squarely into that slim territory:... Read more

Matthew David Brozik
Posted on May 9, 2013October 18, 2016 Domain Names

Dot-xxx: The Rosy Dawn of a New Blue Era

We all knew this day would come, even if not everyone wanted it to: The sponsored top-level domain .xxx is up and running, although addresses... Read more

Posted on May 1, 2012May 1, 2012 Domain Names

Defensive domaining

Kevin Murphy, editor of Domainincite, has a pretty interesting teaser for an analysis — subscription required (maybe he’ll shoot me one, though?) — of how the... Read more

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