Legal News

• Westpac Bank refuses buying westp.ac from a domain seller
  Online entrepreneur Dominic Holland exacerbates two well-known trademark holders
  
  
• Global Economic Downturn 2009 affects International Patent Filings
  Decrease in 2009 filings not as sharp as expected
  
  
• Florida Company Guilty of Billing Scam close to $2.6 Million
  Attorney General's Office seeks full restitution and more
   
• Louis Vuitton wins domain name dispute
  LV has rights to louisvuittontobacco.com.
  
  
• Internet Property Wars reach UAE
  .ae domain attracts speculative interest since market opened upbut time could be running out for such activities.
   
• DNS.BE to reimburse cost of justified dispute processes
  DNS.BE decides to reimburse complainants of justified dispute of total the administrative costs from 15 February 2009.
  
  
• EURid wins court case on Sunrise interpretation
  Article 11 of EC Regulation 874/2004 uphold applicant’s choice concerning Sunrise names with ampersands and special characters
  
  
• Google loses Court Case "Gmail" in Germany
  German entrepreneur successfully claims copyright
  
  
• Germany holds its lead
  2006 sees record number of international trademark filings 
  
  
• Cybersquatting cases rose 20% in 2005
  The U.N. copyright agency reported a 20 percent jump in "cybersquatting" complaints last year.
   
• Dispute over “ucloo.cn”
  Ucloo Online Inc. will file a lawsuit against a Shanghai-based domain name registration services provider company over its blocked domain name “ucloo.cn”.
  
  
• George Foreman to get the rights to ‘georgeforemanenterprises.com’
  Domain registered in bad faith without any legitimate rights to it
  
  
• ‘willsmith.tv’ dispute ends in favour of Will Smith
  The Arbitration Forum ruled that willsmith.tv was ‘confusingly similar’ to the Will Smith trademark registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  
  
• Pearl Jam awarded internet domain name rights
  US-rockers PEARL JAM are celebrating after being awarded the rights to an internet domain name, almost identical to the band's official website address, which directed users to unrelated commercial sites.
  
  
• Internet fraudsters must pay
  TWO internet geeks who made a fortune by misleading net users must pay $2.3million, after a court found they flagrantly broke copyright laws in an elaborate scam.
  
  
• Sex.com thief appears in court
  Following his dramatic arrest late last week Sex.com thief Stephen Cohen has appeared before a judge in San Diego.
  
  
• VeriSign and ICANN strike monster net deal
  VeriSign has dropped all its lawsuits against internet overseeing organisation ICANN, agreed to hand over ownership of the root zone.