US company Hudson’s Furniture Showroom, Inc. had initiated UDRP proceedings against a US national over the domain name <hudsonfurniture.com> based on the following unregistered trademark:… Read More »UDRP: no enforceable trademark, no transfer
Welcome to the first issue of our new format devoted to a short monthly selection of out-of-court decisions relating to domain names. 1. What were… Read More »Review of out-of-court decisions relating to domain names: November 2021
Each year, the Black Friday/Cyber Monday event comes with multiple and heterolytic cyber threats, including cybersquatting and typosquatting. In this regard, the mere creation of… Read More »Black Friday and Cyber Monday: detecting abusive domain name registrations and acting quickly
Company A, which sells cosmetic products, had entrusted company B, a digital agency, with a support mission in digital strategy, particularly the management of social… Read More »Denigration and retention of access codes to social media
In trademark law, a coexistence agreement is an agreement by which the parties, owners of similar or identical trademarks, decide to organize their coexistence, subject… Read More »The coexistence agreement as a mean for preventing disputes relating to domain names
Any distribution agreement must include clear and precise conditions on the use of trademarks, including in the form of domain names. It is not uncommon… Read More »Distribution agreements and domain names
The end of a license for intellectual property rights has the sudden effect of restoring the parties to the status quo ante. One day, the… Read More »France: proof of the well-known status of a trademark through the Barrisol case
In 2017, the Paris Court of Appeal ordered France.com to transfer the domain name france.com to France (iptwins.com, 2021-04-28; iptwins.com, 2018-07 -05; iptwins.com, 2018-05-15). France.com… Read More »The “france.com” case brought to the United States Supreme Court
Introduction 1. Solutions to combat cybersquatting/typosquatting 2. Specialized TLDs 3. Geographical TLDs 4. TLD as part of the brand 5. Hyphen: with or without? Conclusion… Read More »Domain names: collection of recent extrajudicial procedures that could have been avoided
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
