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  • Football club wins “fan site” in UDRP case

    April 05, 2012

    Spanish football club Villareal has won the transfer of a confusingly similar website that claimed to be a home for the club’s fans

  • UDRP complainants fail to win domains

    March 23, 2012

    A rash of recent UDRP cases has seen companies fail to have domain names transferred because they could not prove the domain owner lacked a legitimate interest

  • Failure to register marks leads to UDRP loss

    March 15, 2012

    Publisher Apollonian Publications lost a UDRP case this week largely because it failed to register any trade marks for its business

  • This week’s IP quiz: March 5 to March 9

    March 09, 2012

    Each Friday, Managing IP tests your knowledge of the week’s IP news with five questions on the week’s news. How many can you answer?

  • UDRP decision could mean rush for valuable domains

    March 07, 2012

    Brand owners should try to acquire attractive domains as soon as possible through the UDRP system, given a recent controversial ruling

  • WIPO braced for more UDRP disputes as gTLDs launch

    March 07, 2012

    WIPO says that its Arbitration and Mediation Center handled 2,764 UDRP cases covering 4,781 domain names last year, the highest figure since it began hearing cybersquatting complaints

  • Quiz of the week February 27 to March 2

    March 02, 2012

    Test your knowledge of the week’s IP news with our weekly quiz – all answers available on managingip.com

  • Hotel groups win big UDRP complaints

    March 02, 2012

    Some of the world’s most well-known and luxurious hotel brands have won UDRP cases involving 26 domain names this week

  • Icann urged to investigate NAF

    February 27, 2012

    A trade body representing domain investors has urged Icann to investigate UDRP practices at the National Arbitration Forum (NAF), following two suspicious decisions

  • US government seeks cybersquatting answers

    February 22, 2012

    The US government has invited brand owners and domain industry specialists to a meeting in Washington DC next week to focus on improving US anti-cybersquatting laws

  • UDRP: should laches be a defence?

    January 19, 2012

    A UDRP dispute arising 12 years after the respondent registered its domain has highlighted the division between panellists over the defence of laches

  • UDRP sparks debate at INTA meeting

    December 12, 2011

    The UDRP continues to divide opinions in the IP community, despite an Icann report this year that said reviewing the system should be delayed

  • Karen Millen loses UDRP complaint against rogue site

    November 03, 2011

    A UDRP case has reemphasised that trade mark owners must provide substantial evidence to show that goods sold through suspected rogue domains are counterfeits

  • Brand owners wary of ICANN road to gTLDs

    September 22, 2011

    Trade mark owners and IP attorneys must prepare for a rocky road to the implementation of new gTLDs in 2012, attorneys involved in ICANN proceedings told INTA conference attendees today

  • Octogen doctrine dealt damaging blow

    August 11, 2011

    A decision by a UDRP panellist that again rejects the so-called Octogen line of thinking on bad faith has raised doubts about the sustainability of the doctrine

  • Sceptical response on UDRP review

    July 26, 2011

    Most of the public comments on the UDRP have argued against a review of the system

  • UDRP respondent triumphs over lawyers

    July 14, 2011

    A law firm and three of its lawyers have failed to transfer domains from a woman who uses websites to post critical and potentially defamatory material about them

  • WIPO: Don’t tinker With the UDRP

    July 04, 2011

    WIPO has rejected calls for the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) to be reviewed and urged Icann to focus on the urgent issue of cybersquatting

  • WIPO updates UDRP bible

    March 31, 2011

    WIPO has published a 2.0 version of its overview of UDRP proceedings, which plays an important role in shaping UDRP arguments and decisions

  • Online pirate uses IP rights in domain dispute

    January 24, 2011

    The owner of TorrentReactor, a bit torrent platform that facilitates online piracy, has used its own IP right to win a domain dispute

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