Archives for the Category: Trademarks

24% Increase in Domain Disputes: Bad for the Industry!

Several blogs and news websites have reported a 24% increase in domain disputes in 2010. 2,177 cases were filed with the National Arbitration Forum in 2010, up 418 cases from the 1,759 cases filed 2009. These numbers, however, are worthless if not given any meaning. What does a 24% increase in domain disputes represent? The [...]

Lawyers With Websites Aren’t Your Only Choice

Elliot from ElliotsBlog.com wrote an interesting article yesterday about lawyers that might be worth keeping in mind the next time you get involved in the UDRP process, a trademark infringement case or simply buying a domain name for a large sum of money. I think that yes, lawyers with blogs should be recognized for interacting [...]

Even Apple Commits Trademark Infringement

You probably don’t recognize the device on the left. It’s a mobile, touchscreen device that Fujitsu came out with in 2002. What’s special about this device? It’s called the iPad. For those of you not keeping up with recent news, Apple recently announced their new portable  “smart screen”. Clearly due to a lack of thorough [...]

lPhone.com Marked Dangerous: Analysis of Auction

Reported earlier by DotWeekly.com, LPHONE.com is for sale on GoDaddy’s domain name aftermarket. Unless you’re planning on using the domain to promote a totally different concept, it’s a name that deceives users. Take search engines for example. When you’re searching for X, you’ll get a bunch of results with the result’s domain name at the [...]

The Curious Case of Trademark Infringement

Some of us have been in the domain industry since domain registrations opened to the public, while others of us are just beginning to invest in domain names. Over the years, or even months, often times, if you’re a good investor who owns a .com domain, the .net or .org will also be registered sometime [...]

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