Bloomberg just lost a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) on the new gTLD domain name Bloomberg.Site which is owned by someone in China. The URS was not answered by the domain holder. The Examiner Terry F. Peppard found that Bloomberg holds a valid national registration for the trademark and service mark BLOOMBERG, on file with the United States Patent and Trademark Office as Registry and that … [Read more...]
White Castle Loses URS on WhiteCastle.space
White Castle just lost case under the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) policy for the domain name WhiteCastle.Space and the domain holder didn't even respond. The Examiner although recognized that WHITE CASTLE has trademark rights in the United States long before the domain holder registered the domain name on October 27, 2016. However the domain name at issues is "used to redirect to some … [Read more...]
Virgin Loses URS On The Domain Name VirginMedia.vip
Virgin Enterprise Limited of London, has lost a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding on the domain name VirginMedia.vip which is owned by Wang Hong Wei of Beijing, China who did not even respond to the URS. The Examiner Mr. Peter Müller concluded that Virgin failed to provide "a single copy of a trademark certificate or a printout of an official trademark database. Therefore, the Examiner … [Read more...]
URS Panel Finds The URS Complaint “Was An Abuse of Process” in Grey.email
In what be the first case, an Examiner found a "Complaint filed under the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding was brought as abuse of the administrative proceeding or with material falsehoods". The URS involved the generic domain name Grey.email and the Complainant Grey Global Group LLC of New York, New York, which was represented by Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C. of New York, … [Read more...]
2014 Final UDRP Stats From WIPO & NAF: 0.003% of All Domains Subject to A UDRP/URS
This week the WIPO published it stats for the cases it determine under Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP") in 2014. Back in September the other major organization that hears UDRP and the only one to decide cases filed under the Uniform Rapid Suspension System ("URS") the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) announced their stats for 2014. So now that we have the stats for … [Read more...]
Netflix Finally Wins A URS on Netflix.pics; The Difference?; The Domain Was Parked
Netflix finally won a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) case on the domain name Netflix.pics Netflix recently lost two URS cases on the domain names Netflix.news and Netflix.website. There were two difference between this case of Netflix.pics and the other two URS they lose One was the Examiner which in this case was Debrett Gordon Lyons. Unlike the other two cases where the domain names … [Read more...]
WIPO Publishes 2014 UDRP Figures & 2015 YTD: 14% of WIPO’s 2015 Cases Are New gTLD’s
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) released it annual report yesterday for 2014 and Year to Date numbers through September 2015 for cases it decided under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP") Cases filed ins 2014 were up only 2% from 2013, with 2,634 cases being lodged by trademarks owners claiming abuse of their mark. Country-code top-level domains … [Read more...]
