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TypoSquatting Is Still Very Much Allive
By Steve Levy After about 30 years of watching cybersquatting flourish, I’d have thought that most typo domain names had been taken or transferred to their assertive brand ...
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Metaverse Mayhem: Why You Should Pay Attention to How Your Trademarks Are Used in Roblox
By Jeanette Eriksson Platforms like Roblox allow millions of users to create, share, and monetize their own virtual experiences. However, this increase in user-generated content can also ...
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When Is It Best To Tolerate Unwanted Activity? – The Streisand Effect
By Steve Levy Way back near the dawn of the 21st century, before the tsunami that was to become known as “social media” crashed upon the shores of ...
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What Are You Fighting About? – Filing Disputes In Court Or The UDRP
By Steve Levy A couple of recent UDRP decisions have highlighted the issue of what’s within the scope of, and appropriate for the policy and what disputes are ...
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Are You Talking To The Right Person?
By Steve Levy Not all domain name disputes need to end up as UDRP complaints. Although it’s become more of a challenge since the adoption of the GDPR – which ...
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Pursuing Fakers And Fraudsters As Counterfeiting Continues To Expand
By Steve Levy You know that an issue has grown to a substantial size when it makes it into The Wall Street Journal. For many years now, FairWinds ...
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Falsified Evidence In The Age Of AI
By Steve Levy In all the years I’ve been filing UDRP complaints, there had only been a couple of cases where I’ve encountered evidence that was blatantly manufactured ...
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UDRP Basics – What Do You Need to Prove?
By Steve Levy Do you really know the nuts and bolts of what goes into a successful UDRP case? Let’s start with the basics. There’s the Policy itself, the ...
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Socialsquatting – Finally Time For a SUDRP?
By Steve Levy When brand owners talk about online intellectual property enforcement the first topic is usually domain names and the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). Another topic ...
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No Trademark Registration? Still Trademark Rights?
By Steve Levy In UDRP cases, a key threshold test for succeeding is the ability to prove you have the trademark rights. And recently there have been a ...
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Later Is Better Than Never – Delay In Filing UDRP Complaints
By Steve Levy Maybe you just started a new in-house job, or your company just made a new acquisition or merger. Maybe, in your due diligence, you noticed ...
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Later Is Better Than Never – Delay In Filing UDRP Complaints
By Steve Levy Maybe you just started a new in-house job, or your company just made a new acquisition or merger. Maybe, in your due diligence, you noticed ...
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