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 name that perfectly matches its…
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 the many rules that apply…
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 Australian domain names (auDA.org.au, 2021-07-28) had…
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 Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) with a…
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 2022. Only natural and legal…
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 rights or freedoms of their…
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 copies of jewelry creations. It…
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 Names and Numbers (ICANN) finally…
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 of a domain name composed,…
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. Whois Privacy, Private by Design,…
Last April, the intellectual property division of the Shanghai Pudong court published a White Paper dedicated to building an environment favorable to the protection of the intellectual property rights of…
In a breaking decision, JIPAC accepted English as the language of proceedings for the first time, setting a useful precedent for ulterior litigants. The first series of argument was standard…
Microsoft’s IT managers faced a new cybersecurity issue. For a few hours this Sunday, May 23, the Exchange administration portal was blocked. When users attempted to connect to the admin.exchange.com…
In May 2019, French customs notified M. BV that they had seized 1000 badges similar to its European registered trademarks (see below) on the basis of Article L. 716-8 of…
In 2012, when applications for Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) were first opened, seven registries applied to administer .WEB, including Nu Dot Co (NDT), Donuts and Afilias. In such a…
How to get the transfer of a domain name such as brother.tld? The Japanese company Brother Industries is confronted with the generic character of the single word which composes the…
Amazon platforms are, collectively, one of the main concerns of intellectual property rights holders facing online counterfeiting, as evidenced by testimonials provided by right holders to the European Commission and…
In the United States, more than twenty years after the Anti-cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), the debate on the notion of “registration” is at the heart of a legal battle…
Spase, Inc. has failed for the 3rd time to submit a successful UDRP for spase.com. The complainant clearly does not understand the true definition of cybersquatting and how the UDRP…
JD is one of the leading players in e-commerce within China, boasting 745,8 billion Yuans in total net revenues for 2020. Ahead of the World Intellectual Property day on April…
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