Commercial values in a business can include the intellectual properties such as patents, trademarks, and designs and also copyrights owned by that business. In many instances, a business has little or no commercial value without its intellectual properties. The resources of the business, client and supplier lists, and profits should thus not only be the [...]
It has become increasingly important for a business to have a virtual presence in cyberspace. It has therefore become common practice for a business to register its established trade mark as a domain name in order to benefit from the trade mark’s reputation and navigate Internet users to its website. As domain names are registered [...]
What are the results of the procedures, and are they binding? A domain name is either transferred or the complaint is denied and the respondent keeps the domain name. It is also possible to seek cancellation of the domain name. There are no monetary damages applied in UDRP domain name disputes, and no injunctive relief [...]
There is no agreement within the Internet community that would allow organizations that register domain names to pre-screen the filing of potentially problematic names. The reasons vary, ranging from allowing easy registrations to stimulate business, to the practical difficulties involved in determining who holds the rights to a name, to the principle of freedom of [...]
While designed to serve the function of enabling users to locate computers (and people) in an easy manner, domain names have acquired a further significance as business identifiers and, as such, have come into conflict with the system of business identifiers that existed before the arrival of the Internet and that are protected by intellectual [...]
Although the correct procedure for domain disputes is to take the issue to the URDP, many companies such as Tucows have bypassed the URDP and filed domain name lawsuits directly. It should be noted that there are authorities such as URDP and WIPO for handling of domain disputes. It will be cheaper, but if you [...]
There is a slight difference between cyber squatting and passing off domain names. Cyber squatting is when a company registers a domain name without the intention to use it. The only reason for registering the domain name is to prevent others from registering a name. If you are thus registering name.co.za and also want name.com [...]
The maker of the Blackberry phones, Research in Motion has recently won a domain name dispute against an Indian company over the registration of three domain names that they felt resembled and thus infringed on their Blackberry trademark. The domain name dispute was about the registration of the domains of blackberry.com as well as blckberry.com [...]
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