A three member UDRP panel has awarded the domain name ElectricFootball.com to Tudor Games, Inc. of Sammamish, Washington which owned the domain name until 1997 when they "unintentionally" let it expire and that is when Vertical Axis Inc. who was represented by ESQwire.com Law Firm, acquired the domain on the drop. The Complaintant did not apply for the trademark with the USPTO until 1999 but … [Read more...]
Trademark Holders Make Cybersquatting Profitable By Failing To Act: BentleyMotorCars.com 9 Years Old
We have mentioned before that when it comes to the levels of cybersquatting trademark holders have to share the blame by creating the ecosystem for high profits for those registering bang on trademark infringing domains and allowing them to be very profitabily parked for many year before taking action Today we see another one such case. Bentley Motors Limited just won a UDRP on … [Read more...]
Panel Decides To “Terminate” UDRP On Telepathy’s SDT.com W/Fed Case Pending + 1 Vote RDNH
2 members of a 3 member UDRP decided to terminate a UDRP filed by SDT International limited company of Belgium (SDT) on the three letter .com, SDT.com from Nat Cohen's Telepathy, Inc. who was represented by Wiley Rein LLP. The three member panel spit in its decision with 2 members voting to terminate the the proceeding since Telepathy has already filed a federal lawsuit seeking a declaratory … [Read more...]
“The Donald” Goes After The Domain TrumpCard.com In A UDRP
Domain Trump has filed a UDRP on the domain name Trumpcard.com The domain name TrumpCard.com was first registered in 1998. While the Donald owns some casinos or at least has his name on them, the term Trump Card has a meaning well before the time there was a Donald Trump and well before he ever owned a casino. The domain is owned under privacy since 2011. The last time it was owned by … [Read more...]
Fiesta.com Hit With A UDRP
The extremely generic domain name Fiesta.com has been hit with a UDRP filing. The complainant is Dean & Simmons, Sàrl Heintz Van Landewyck S.à.r.l. which as the best as I can tell has a pending but not yet registered trademark on the term and is actually facing abandonment by April 2015. Del Monte foods also has a recently filed … [Read more...]
Fox Sports Owned Domain SportsSouth.com Saved In A UDRP Decision: No Use in 4+ Years Is Not Bad Faith
Well here is something you don't see very often in UDRP land a Fortune 500 Company defending a domain name it owns against a UDRP claim and they didn't even elect to pay for a three member panel The UDRP was brought by Sports South, LLC on the domain SportsSouth.com which is owned by Fox Sports Networks, LLC and registered at Mark Monitor The Sports South, LLC domain name claimed that there … [Read more...]
Snapchat Loses UDRP On SnapChatCheck.com
Snapchat, Inc. just lost a UDRP on the domain name snapchatcheck.com and the domain holder didn't even respond. Houston Putnam Lowry, Chartered Arbitrator, was the sole Panelist. Here are the highlights: "Complainant claims Respondent has not provided any bona fide offering of goods or services, or made a legitimate noncommercial or fair use of the disputed domain name. Complainant … [Read more...]