In a UDRP published today, a lawyer domain holder beat back a challenge from The California Milk Processor Board on the domain name GotMilkAds.com California Milk Processor Board is the owner of the registered trademark GOT MILK? Its a interesting opinion especially in light of the fact that UDRP's panels have awarded domain names to this same complainant based off of this trademark and led … [Read more...]
WIPO Boss: “The Web Would Have Been Better Off If It Was Patented & Every User Had To Pay A License Fee To Use It”
According to a story in The Blog, boingboing, Francis Gurry, the Director General of the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) chatted last week about who much better off the Internet would have been "if it had been locked away in patents, and if every user of the Web had needed to pay a license fee to use it " Of course WIPO is one of the groups which administer domain name … [Read more...]