The Freename Forum

... not readily give rise to a trade mark that fulfils the first requirement of the UDRP in the context of the proceedings. The complainant in the dispute over the domain thecharlesmachineworks.com was unable to prove the use of its name as a customary trade mark and lost the proceedings. The Charles ...

... arbitration tribunal of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). The procedure itself is closely modelled on the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), but has several important differences that are specifically tailored to .lv. In addition to registered trademarks, ...

... a positive conclusion one year after the launch of the voluntary ‘mediation service’. Since 3 July 2023, AFNIC has been offering an out-of-court dispute resolution procedure for .fr and all French overseas TLDs; it gives the parties, accompanied by a mediator, a period of seven working days to ...

The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) is expanding its range of out-of-court dispute resolution procedures for country code extensions. Since October 2024, WIPO has also been the only arbitration tribunal to accept disputes over domain names ending in .cv ...

... prevailing in contested and close UDRP cases and outlining the expectations of the evidence that trademark owners need to prove their rights to disputed domains. His presentation will focus on the five percent of UDRP cases in which complainants lose. The starting point is that the UDRP was ...

... rights. Consequently, the complainant knew or must have known that the complaint would not be successful. This constituted an abuse of the dispute resolution procedure under the UDRP. Consequently, Speres dismissed the complaint and finds RDNH. The UDRP decision on the domain eagledata.com ...

Since January 2024, the US registrar Namecheap Inc. has been in dispute with the Internet registry ICANN before the Superior Court of the State of California (Case No. 24SMCP00066). At the center of this civil dispute, which follows an Independent Review ...

... York started a second UDRP procedure shortly after losing it. In doing so, it did not reflect the grounds for the decision from the first legal dispute, but only attempted to correct one point that was not relevant to the decision. In a June 2024 UDRP proceeding at The Forum, Authentic Brands ...

After domain investor Richard Blair lost the UDRP dispute over lambo.com in 2022, he sued the US civil courts for a declaration that he was the legitimate domain owner and that there was no right to transfer the domain to Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A.. ...

... reforms to the UDRP. On October 24, 1999 - exactly 25 years ago to the day - the Internet administration ICANN introduced the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) to resolve international domain name disputes. Trademark owners were convinced by the UDRP right from the start, as ...