A single-member Panel at the National Arbitration Forum decided the domain dispute Microsoft Corporation v. TN Chen, FA0911001296240 (Nat. Arb. Forum Jan. 13, 2010). The Complainant is Microsoft Corporation and the Respondent is TN Chen from China. The domain names at issue are <bing-wallpaper.com> and <bingimg.com>, registered with GoDaddy.com, Inc. “Bing” is the name of [...]
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A panel at the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) decided recently the domain name dispute Lacoste Alligator S.A. v. LaCoste Healing Jewelry, WIPO Case No. D2009-0700. The Complainant is Lacoste Alligator, S.A., a clothing company famous for manufacturing tennis shirts, owner of the word mark LACOSTE (USPTO No. 1947111). Respondent is LaCoste Healing Jewelry, owned [...]
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Recently, a panel at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) granted Research in Motion 101 disputed domain names. In Research in Motion Limited v. Georges Elias, WIPO Case No. D2009-0218, the Complainant is Research in Motion, the owner of the registered marks for BLACKBERRY (U.S. and Canada) and BERRY (Hong Kong). Respondent is Georges Elias, [...]
As a future computer scientist, it is hard not to write about the most recent issue of Landslide, published by the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law. The magazine contains an excellent article by Mark V. B. Partridge and Scott T. Lonardo. The authors discuss ICANN‘s recent developments in the Internet domain name system: Domain [...]
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As reported today by the Domain Name Wire, SAP, the multinational software company, lost a domain name dispute against UniSAP, a provider of SAP consulting services. The dispute was resolved by a panel at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. In SAP AG v. UniSAP, Inc., No. D2009-0297, the disputed domain name was unisap.com. The [...]
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Hewlett-Packard requested the ICANN an exception to the rule that new domain names must consist of at least three characters. The company wants to register .HP and claims that the rule puts HP in a disadvantaged position against its competitors, like IBM. See: Hewlett-Packard Wants .HP Domain Name at the Domain Wire. Technorati Tags: law, [...]
They’re in the news again. The National Arbitration Forum has just issued a decision in favor of AARP’s right to its pharmacy web address . Its nice to see an organized, reasoned opinion with references to other opinions ( both within and outside NAF ) and court cases as precedent. And on another happy note, [...]
