Archive for July, 2008
Hobbits v. Hobbitts: Generic Mark Argument Won’t Prevent Panel From Seeing Pay Per Click Parking as Bad Faith
Seemingly generic domain names can often turn into a trademark nightmare when used in combination with pay per click parking pages. A recent proceeding in front of the World Intellectual Property Organization demonstrates that a registrant’s inability to control these…
Hobbits v. Hobbitts: Generic Mark Argument Won’t Prevent Panel From Seeing Pay Per Click Parking as Bad Faith
Seemingly generic domain names can often turn into a trademark nightmare when used in combination with pay per click parking pages. A recent proceeding in front of the World Intellectual Property Organization demonstrates that a registrant’s inability to control these…
The Three Views of Trademark Cybersquatting
We all know the formal definition of cybersquatting under the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) and the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA). But in the blogosphere, people use the word cybersquatting to mean a variety of different things. The good…
The Three Views of Trademark Cybersquatting
We all know the formal definition of cybersquatting under the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) and the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA). But in the blogosphere, people use the word cybersquatting to mean a variety of different things. The good…
