Cybersquatting & Domain Dispute Attorneys / Lawyers

CAN A TOP LEVEL DOMAIN (GTLD) BE TRADEMARKED?

Supreme Court Commentator — 2013-05-02T14:34:25-04:00

With all the new GTLDs being rolled out by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the question of whether a GTLD can be trademarked has become the big issue. The answer is relatively straightforward. A GTLD cannot...

Traverse Legal, PLC Successfully Defends UDRP Filed by Non-Profit: No Established Trademark Rights in Phrase "Organizing for Action"

Supreme Court Commentator — 2013-04-17T09:51:33-04:00

Attorney Brian A. Hall has successfully defended a UDRP filed against its client concerning the domain names organizingforaction.com and organizingforaction.org. The UDRP Decision to deny the claim matches another earlier, although recent, decision that reached the same result concerning the...

Traverse Legal Obtains $74,500 Statutory Damage Award Against Overdrive, Inc. for Bad Faith Cybersquatting.

Supreme Court Commentator — 2013-04-09T13:02:31-04:00

Traverse Legal's cybersquatting law lawyers obtained a statutory damage award under the ACPA on behalf of their client in the amount of $74,500 against Overdrive, Inc., a distributor of digital products such as ebooks, audiobooks, music and videos, for bad...

CitizenHawk UDRP Complaint Fail

Supreme Court Commentator — 2013-03-12T13:52:45-04:00

When you use a service which tends to boilerplate all of your pleadings, you sometimes get what you pay for. CitizenHawk does a variety of different online brand protection activities. But a bunch of what it does is automated and...

Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy: UDRP WIPO vs. NAF Arbitration. Which Should I Choose?

Supreme Court Commentator — 2013-02-26T12:07:15-05:00

A UDRP complaint seeking arbitration to transfer a domain name which you believe is infringing your trademark mark to you and to obtain control of that domain name. A common question we often have is whether or not there is...

Cybersquatting Lawyer wins UDRP Case Against Cybersquatter.

Supreme Court Commentator — 2012-11-30T14:20:23-05:00

Marc Randazza (Complainant) of The Randazza Legal Group wins UDRP action against Cybersquatter Crystal Cox (Respondnent) for the bad faith registration and use of domain names incorporating the Complainant’s personal name. Further, the Respondent, in registering multiple domain names which...

Another Cybersquatting Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff

Supreme Court Commentator — 2012-07-19T11:40:56-04:00

Here are the lessons that we've learned as a result of actually getting out in front of a judge and a jury, and trying these ACPA cases. Number one, they are challenging cases because there's so little case law out...

Cybersquatters Beware: KeepAlert Helps Companies Identify Online Brand Attacks

Supreme Court Commentator — 2012-06-25T11:14:36-04:00

We’re broadcasting from the International Trademark Association Conference in Washington D.C. Over 9,000 trademark attorneys and in-house counsel from around the world are here to talk about brands, brand protections, trademarks, trademark registration. Today, we’re talking, again, with Anthony Don,...

KeepAlert Software Provides A+ Online Brand and Domain Management.

Supreme Court Commentator — 2012-06-25T09:54:11-04:00

Protecting your trademarks and brands from attack on the Internet continues to become more difficult. From cybersquattters who register variations of your trademarks or a domain name as their own in order to divert your business and customers, to keyword...

Tales from a Cybersquatting Law Lawsuit

Supreme Court Commentator — 2012-06-14T16:04:04-04:00

Now the first thing you need to know is that the ACPA, the Anti-cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, has a very limited number of cases that have been decided under it. The language of the statute is fairly clear, but, as...