Hard-Hitting RDNH Findings and More – ICA UDRP Digest – Vol 1.16

Kamila SekiewiczUDRP, UDRP Case Summaries, WIPO

Welcome to this week’s UDRP Digest (vol. 1.16), summarizing the most intriguing cases of the past week. Read about: ‣ Panelist Neuman Makes Extensive RDNH Finding Against Complainant Who Waited 20 Years and Failed to Prove Even Common Law Rights (electrosoft .com) ‣ Panelist Nahitchevansky Finds RDNH on First Domain, Transfers the Other Ten to Complainant (idahomerealty .com and more) …

ICA Weekly UDRP Case Summary Digest – Volume 1.6

Kamila SekiewiczUDRP, UDRP Case Summaries, WIPO

Welcome to this week’s UDRP Digest (vol. 1.6), summarizing the most intriguing cases of the past week. Read about: ‣ Attempt to swap website redirection foiled (uniswap .com) ‣ Domaining overpowers Canadian Healthcare Company (nuro .com) ‣ Too much of a hype by ‘The Hype Company’ (thehypecompany .com) ‣ Quixotic idea leads to shattered dreams (vandorp .com) ‣ The Vietnamese …

ICA Weekly UDRP Case Summary Digest – Volume 1.5

Kamila SekiewiczUDRP, UDRP Case Summaries, WIPO

Welcome to this week’s UDRP Digest (vol. 1.5), summarizing the most intriguing cases of the past week. Read about: ‣ Red Bull in a China Shop (redbullbeijing .com and others) ‣ Buttkicker Gets Butt Kicked (buttkicker .com) ‣ Turkish Car Company’s Complaint Not Up to Speed (togg .com) ‣ Don’t Confuse Your B&B with Your BNB, or AirBNB (hotelbnb .com) …

ICA Weekly UDRP Case Summary Digest – Volume 1

Kamila SekiewiczUDRP, UDRP Case Summaries, WIPO

============================================================ Quality Carriers, Inc. v. Bests, LLC, WIPO Case No. D2021-1807 QualityCarriers.com  Transfer    Panelist: Mr Robert A. Badgley  Summary: Generic-sounding QualityCarriers.com transferred in UDRP proceedings. Complainant had a long standing trademark. Respondent had record of prior cybersquatting. No proper response filed. Brief Facts: Quality Carriers, Inc., USA filed UDRP over <qualitycarriers.com>. Complainant, a provider of transportation services, had a registered Trademark …

ICA PARTICIPATES IN WIPO 20TH ANNIVERSARY SYMPOSIUM

Kamila SekiewiczUDRP, WIPO

Zak Muscovitch, General Counsel of the ICA, was invited by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to present at its symposium on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the UDRP held in Geneva on October 21, 2019.  This invitation was a rare opportunity to share the perspective of domain name investors to an audience of UDRP panelists.  UDRP panelists …

Responsible and Prudent UDRP Panels Decline to Draw Conclusions in the Absence of Clear and Sufficient Evidence

Zak MuscovitchDomain Law, Law & Policy, UDRP, WIPO

In the recent case concerning Chatroulette.org , the Panel demonstrated the responsible and prudent approach in evaluating evidence in the UDRP. The Panel stated as follows: “The Panel takes the view that the Respondent’s denial of knowledge of the existence of the Complainant and his trade mark at that date is credible enough to require more from the Complainant to …

UDRP: Better Late than Never – ICA Applauds WIPO for Removing Misguided ‘Retroactive Bad Faith’

adminDomain Law, Law & Policy, UDRP, WIPO

The Internet Commerce Association (ICA), a non-profit trade group representing the domain industry, applauds the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for removing misleading guidance from the newly released updated version 3.0 of its Overview of WIPO Panel Views on Selected UDRP Questions that in the previous version had granted undeserved legitimacy to a misconstruction of the UDRP commonly known as …

Initial Statement of the Internet Commerce Association Regarding the Camilla.Com UDRP Decision

Philip CorwinDomain Law, ICA, ICANN, Law & Policy, UDRP, WIPO

Washington, DC; December 11, 2015 — The Internet Commerce Association today released the following initial statement in regard to the November 30 decision of the WIPO Administrative Panel in the case of Camilla Australia Pty Ltd v. Domain Admin, Mrs Jello, LLC (Case No. D2015-1593; http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2015-1593): The egregious three-member panel decision in this Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) dispute departs …

ICA Tells ICANN That Comprehensive UDRP Review Should Follow RPM Analysis

Philip CorwinDomain Law, ICA, ICANN, INTA, Law & Policy, UDRP, URS, WIPO

On November 30th ICA filed its comment letter regarding the “Preliminary Issue Report on a GNSO Policy Development Process to Review All Rights Protection Mechanisms in All gTLDs” that was published for public comment on October 9, 2015. ICA’s complete comment can be viewed at http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-rpm-prelim-issue-09oct15/msg00021.html, and all 24 filed comments are available at http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-rpm-prelim-issue-09oct15/index.html. The principal question raised by the Report …