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
Category: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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