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... domain - took the matter to The Forum to conduct dispute resolution proceedings. And rightly so. There is no dispute resolution procedure like the UDRP for the German country code extension .de. From the point of view of DENIC eG, the administrator of the German extension, the German legal system ...

... freedom of expression. Lockheed Martin Corporation saw its trademark rights infringed by the domain fucklockheedmartin.com and initiated UDRP proceedings before The Forum. The company argued that the domain directs to a site where the domain owner and opponent expresses political views ...

... The “Règlement sur la Procédure Alternative de Résolution de Litiges du domaine .HT” applies. It is only available in French and is based on the UDRP, but has some differences. For example, the complainant can invoke not only a trademark infringement, but also an infringement of personal rights. ...

Domain attorney John Berryhill reflects on two-character domains, their value, their UDRP history and the evolution of the UDRP in a recent article. We took a look at the reflections. It was prompted by an advertisement shown during this year's Super Bowl. 30 seconds ...

After discussing a very successful UDRP procedure of a German company last week, we briefly show two German companies that recently failed in UDRP proceedings. hydacservice.com - (WIPO Case No. D2024-4947) HYDAC Technology GmbH, founded in ...

Ernsting's family GmbH & Co. KG has won 32 fake shop domains in extensive UDRP proceedings before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The opponents remained silent. The German textile retailer Ernsting's family GmbH & Co. KG saw its trademarks ...

Domain name lawyer Doug Isenberg presents his statistical report on UDRP decisions for the year and the fourth quarter of 2024. The number of UDRP proceedings continues to rise. “Gigalaw's Domain Dispute Digest Fourth Quarter, 2024” is a 16-page report on ...

... Germany considered his name right to be infringed by the domain stein.eu and initiated ADR proceedings for .eu domains before the WIPO. Unlike the UDRP, the ADR procedure for .eu domains also allows name rights to be asserted as part of the dispute resolution procedure. Accordingly, Mr. Stein, ...

... According to the report, trademark owners from 133 countries initiated 6,168 proceedings under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and its ccTLD variants in 2024. This is the second-highest number of domain proceedings filed with WIPO since 1999. The number of cases shows ...

The number of initiatives to reform the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) has grown: the high-caliber UDRP Exploratory Group is planning improvements to the domain arbitration procedure, but the core of the existing regulations is to remain untouched. ...