We basically know that everything is trademarked at this point Of course there are those who are just straight out cybersquatter, make a living off of typo domains like wallmart.com or Verision.com but all domainers at some point might trip over a domain they didn't know was trademarked or just made a good guess of a forthcoming product. Consider the case of Marriott International, Inc who … [Read more...]
Stages.com Sold In January for $14k+ Hit With UDRP By Co. That Filed a Trademark Last Week
Well now this UDRP/trademark thing is officially just getting silly. The domain name Stages.com, a generic domain name by any measure, has been hit with a UDRP after the domain was purchased in January for Over $14k, by a company that just filed for a trademark last week. The UDRP was filed by Foundation Fitness LLC which filed a trademark on the term "Stages" way back on June 12, … [Read more...]
UDRP Panel Rejects Fashion Television’s Attempt To Grab Fashion.tv
Fashion Television International Limited has lost it's attempt to grab the domain name Fashion.tv in a UDRP basically letting a pending court case in Munich decide the fate of the domain fashion.tv We wrote about this UDRP when it was filed a couple of months ago There was a report that Fashion.tv was purchased in 2014 for $125,000 but that does not seem to be correct, according to the facts … [Read more...]
UDRP’s Filed On: eWomen.com; GSSF.com; Unbiased.com; AENA.com
UDRP's have been filed on Filed On: eWomen.com; GSSF.com, Unbiased.com and AENA.com ewomen.com has an original registration date of 1997 and is currently registered to Terra Serve of Grand Cayman and is currently being parked to a generic adult landing page. Looking at Screenshots.com, the domain appears to have been parked for many years except for a time where is was a "contest" … [Read more...]
Eli Lilly Wins Control of 392 “Cialis” Domains In a Single UDRP
Eli Lilly Wins Control of 392 Domains In a Single UDRP. The domain names were registered with 3 different registrars All the 393 domain names included the trademark terms Cialis Here is the list of … [Read more...]
WTF? UDRP Panel Finds OBSS.com is Confusingly Similar To TM: OBSS BUSINESS SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
A one member UDRP panel, just rejected the attempt of OBSS Bilisim Bilgisayar Hizmetleri Danismanlik Sanayi Ve Ticaret Limited Sirketi (yes that is the company's name) of Istanbul, Turkey to grab the domain name OBSS.com OBSS.com was registered on August 5, 2003, the trademark was registered in 2012. So the Complaint was dismissed by the panelist. The only noteworthy part about the UDRP … [Read more...]
Heinz Files UDRP On KraftHeinz.com, Registered Same Day Merger Was Announced
Just two month after announcing its merger with Kraft Foods (NASDAQ: KRFT) , H.J. Heinz Company (NYSE:HNZ) has filed a UDRP to gain control of the domain name KraftHeinz.com The domain name was registered on March 25, 2015 the same day the companies announced the merger, by someone in Korea. On the same day someone in Korea also registered the reverse domain of HeinzKraft.com with the same … [Read more...]