Grupo Nacional Provincial is a Mexican insurance company founded in 1907 which owns several Mexican trademarks composed of the acronym “GNP”. GNC wanted to secure the domain… Read More »UDRP targetting gnp.com: brief comment on the strategy to adopt in the case of a short acronym brand
Managing trademarks and domain names is demanding, and even more when the trademark is made up of a generic word (eg: Apple, Caterpillar, Orange). Among… Read More »cnDRP on caterpillar. 中国 and 卡特彼勒. 中国: the risks of recklessness
Shortly after the announcement of the hosting of the 2032 Olympic Games by the city of Brisbane, the registry in charge of the administration of… Read More »Brisbane Olympic Games in 2032: already some cybersquatting attempts
The canton of Zurich is launching the .ZUERICH on August 30, 2021. From 30 August to 29 October 2021, owners of trademarks registered in the… Read More ».ZUERICH: available from 30 August 2021
auDA, the Australian registry in charge of the .AU domain names, has announced that second-level domain names such as nom.au will be available from March… Read More »Australia: domain.au available from March 2022
When two or more fundamental rights or freedoms conflict, the principle of proportionality applies. Intellectual property rights may have a tumultuous relationship with some other… Read More »Everything.sucks: freedom of expression as a pretext for concealing greedy intent
Bulgari SpA was notified that the domain bulgarireplica.it, registered by an Italian national, was used to refer to a website where visitors could purchase identical… Read More »itDRP on bulgarireplica.it: brief focus on the word “replica”
After multiple legal setbacks resulting from competition between candidates for the management of the .MUSIC new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD), the Internet Corporation for Assigned… Read More »New gTLD .MUSIC
In disputes between, on the one hand, an administrative entity defined by geographical boundaries (city, region, or state) and, on the other hand, the holder… Read More »UDRP on parramatta.com: the difficulty of requesting the transfer of a geographical name
The Gorgonzola defense organization recently succeeded in a UDRP case concerning the domain name gorgonzola.blue (WIPO, D2021-0722, Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola v.… Read More »Geographical indications cybersquatting: the Gorgonzola case
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