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Steve Levy ⬥ September 9 While some companies can pursue UDRPs more sparingly, pharmaceutical companies generally have to be more aggressive in reclaim efforts. After all, even if a domain name does not receive much traffic, the potential harm associated with counterfeit drug sales or misleading information can be significant. Proof of bad faith, at […]

Josh Bourne ⬥ October 8 The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) released the results of this year’s Most Innovative Companies survey last week.  The survey is conducted by BCG as follows: As in past surveys, the 2013 results reveal the 50 companies that executives rank as the most innovative, weighted to incorporate relative three-year shareholder returns,

Josh Bourne ⬥ September 6 Fashion Week, now underway in NYC, is perhaps the ultimate example of the retail industry’s proclivity for spectacle and showmanship. Even though producing just one runway show can cost over $1 million dollars, as industry expert Kate Betts explained to Marketplace’s Kai Ryssdal yesterday, the residual exposure is worth it

Steve Levy ⬥ September 3 This week’s chosen UDRP decision drives home the point that you can only file a UDRP to enforce your own registered trademarks – it’s not a tool to enforce pending trademarks and certainly not one to grab domain names from a competitor. The Complainant, Swift Unlocks, Inc., filed a UDRP

Josh Bourne ⬥ August 28 Most of us are pretty familiar with the concept of a hacker attacking a website – and, in fact, downloadable tools to help hackers break into a site and steal information are readily available.  But what happens when a top-level domain registry is hacked, as appears to have been the

Josh Bourne ⬥ August 26 Our own Josh Bourne recently published a piece on the Blackberry Z10 and the surprising fact that Blackberry did not own www.Z10.com. Last week, as phablet fans in the United States awaited the arrival of Samsung’s Mega this Friday (it was first released in South Korea, Europe and Russia), an

Josh Bourne ⬥ August 26 Google’s been up to a lot lately: It recently signed on to an intellectual property best practices document aimed at cutting off ad revenue to cybersquatters. Its investment in new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) will (or won’t) come to bear soon. It announced the launch of Chromecast. And it continues

Josh Bourne ⬥ August 14 The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO.gov) has proposed that certain new dot-brand gTLDs could be eligible for registration as trademarks – if the gTLDs meet certain criteria.  These criteria include owning a prior registration for the exact mark of the TLD, proving that the mark is famous, and

Steve Levy ⬥ August 12 A recent UDRP case handled by the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) should serve as a lesson to other potential complainants that the UDRP is not the place to air one’s dirty corporate laundry. The complaint, which was filed by MSubs Limited against Marlin Submarines/Paul Moorhouse over the domain names marlinsubs.com

Josh Bourne ⬥ August 7 The results of a new study on the security risks of proposed new generic top-level domain (new gTLDs) names likely will lead to delays of many new gTLD applications by at least four months. The majority of new gTLDs are “low risk” and got the green light to proceed, although