The man known for using sexually suggestive advertising to sell his products and owner of a company dubbed Virgin recently won a legal battle to gain control over richardbranson.xxx. Source. Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson filed a UDRP complaint against Sean Truman, who, according to the decision, is not in the...
By J. DeVoy Vegas Inc., which provides excellent coverage of Las Vegas' legal developments (such as its remarkable dedication to the Righthaven saga), reports on a lawsuit filed by the operator of Piranha Night Club and 8 1/2 Ultra Lounge against Krave over the domain name <piranhalv.com>. Historical note: from 2004...
Lets say you go to the website "abercrombieandfitchstore.com." What would you expect to find there? Probably not what you see below. That's cybersquatting, and it is illegal. Abercrombie & Fitch have had enough, and they've brought suit against the as yet unidentified owners of more than 150 infringing...
Some dumbass registered thousands of typosquatting domains. A handful of them were typosquatting on Microsoft's trademarks, so Microsoft sued him for $2.4 million. Now the dumbass wants to just hand over the domain names and call it a day, and if Microsoft doesn't like it, he's not going...
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="248" caption="Ah pity da fool who thinks he be judgment proof! I got ya judgment proof right here, foo!!!!!"][/caption]Cybersquatters often either hide offshore, or they claim to be offshore, or they claim that they don't have any money -- ergo they are "judgment proof." Well, Marc...
A very interesting case that Marc is handling. He filed this Response (don't forget the annexes) to Glenn Beck's Complaint (exhibits included) yesterday. UPDATE: He has requested that Mr. Beck stipulate to the First Amendment applying to these proceedings. I will update you when Beck...
I finally took a stab at filing a UDRP proceeding with the Czech Arbitration Court (my previous go-to was WIPO, and I'd never use NAF). What attracted me? Online filing! It is about time that someone recognizes that UDRP proceedings are a 21st century phenomenon, and...
[caption id="attachment_6393" align="alignright" width="175" caption="First the victim of Flori-duh's social conservatives, now the victim of a cybersquatter."][/caption] Tiffany Shepherd, the Port Saint Lucie schoolteacher who was fired from her job because she worked on a fishing charter boat in a bikini has decided to make the jump into adult entertainment. ...
The Domains Blog gives a report on how GoDaddy is not only selling domain names that clearly infringe on trademark rights, but selling certified appraisals of those domains. The Domains Blog, a domainer-industry source is deeply disturbed at this turn of events and proposes a domain parking code of...
Equifax uses EFX as its stock ticker symbol. On that basis, it filed a UDRP action against Future Media Architects over the domain name EFX.com. See Equifax Inc. v. Future Media Architects Inc., NAF Claim Number 1195133 (Jul. 23, 2008). Equifax was not successful, but this decision...
