Domain Name Strategy

Steve Levy ⬥ September 16 Internet giant Google, despite having what must surely be an almost unlimited legal budget and no qualms about taking its foes to court, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

Steve Levy ⬥ August 5 Microsoft Corporation recently experienced success after filing a UDRP complaint with the National Arbitration Forum disputing 13 domain names containing a number of ...