If You Lose a Judgment and Don’t Pay, Your Domain Names Can be Seized
Office Depot won a judgment against John Zuccarini under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act of 1999 (15 U.S.C. § 1125(d)) based on Zuccarini’s bad-faith registration of the domain name...
View ArticleHow to Defeat a Cybersquatter
Someone has obtained a domain name that is the same as, or confusingly similar to, a trademark or service mark that you own. How can you take the domain name from this “cybersquatter”? When he...
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This page is an Advertisement under Rule of Professional Conduct 1-400, Standard 5. Dana Shultz provides the essential legal services that startup and early-stage companies in the San Francisco...
View ArticleHow Old Can a Copyrighted Work Be?
Cover of Time Magazine published March 3, 1923 Sometimes people want to know whether a work is so old that it it can be copied without any possibility of infringing anyone’s copyright. This post...
View ArticleRecover Your Domain Name, and Perhaps Some Money, Too
From defendant Nahum's website at the hijacked domain Just over a year ago (Who is the Master of Your Domain? [or, How to Prevent Domain Name Hijacking]), I wrote about recovering a client’s domain...
View ArticleWhat Must We Do if We’re Going to Be Acquired?
A successful exit by acquisition is one of the great thrills of entrepreneurship. That exit does not come easily, however. This post discusses, by category, the most important documents and...
View ArticleCompliance Services Joins Hall of Shame
If you form a corporation, the Postal Service soon will inundate you with official-looking forms from companies offering to create or file corporate documents on your behalf. Earlier this week I...
View ArticleHow to Defeat a Cybersquatter, Part 2: Going to Court
In How to Defeat a Cybersquatter, I wrote about ICANN’s Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. The UDRP provides a quick, inexpensive way to recover a domain name from a cybersquatter (someone...
View ArticleICANN to Help Trademark Owners Prevent Cybersquatting
In an interview in today’s San Francisco Chronicle (“Rod Beckstrom, CEO of ICANN, talks about new domain names“), the CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers stated that ICANN...
View ArticleGingrich Domain is Newtered – But the UDRP Probably Won’t Help
In How to Defeat a Cybersquatter, I wrote about using ICANN’s comparatively quick and inexpensive Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) to defeat cybersquatters. The domain name...
View ArticleURS – ICANN Offers Uniform Rapid Suspension against Cybersquatters
I have written several times about ICANN’s longstanding Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). This post discusses a more recent way to thwart some cybersquatters, namely, URS – Uniform...
View Article“Happy Birthday” May Be in the Public Domain, After All
You probably have sung “Happy Birthday [to You]” countless times. This post is about a company that has been collecting royalties from that song and the possibility that those royalties soon may stop....
View ArticleHow Old Can a Copyrighted Work Be?
Cover of Time Magazine published March 3, 1923 Sometimes people want to know whether a work is so old that it it can be copied without any possibility of infringing anyone’s copyright. This post...
View ArticleRecover Your Domain Name, and Perhaps Some Money, Too
From defendant Nahum’s website at the hijacked domain Just over a year ago (Who is the Master of Your Domain? [or, How to Prevent Domain Name Hijacking]), I wrote about recovering a client’s domain...
View ArticleWhat Must We Do if We’re Going to Be Acquired?
A successful exit by acquisition is one of the great thrills of entrepreneurship. That exit does not come easily, however. This post discusses, by category, the most important documents and...
View ArticleCompliance Services Joins Hall of Shame
If you form a corporation, the Postal Service soon will inundate you with official-looking forms from companies offering to create or file corporate documents on your behalf. Earlier this week I...
View ArticleHow to Defeat a Cybersquatter, Part 2: Going to Court
In How the UDRP can Defeat a Cybersquatter, I wrote about ICANN’s Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. The UDRP provides a quick, inexpensive way to recover a domain name from a...
View ArticleICANN to Help Trademark Owners Prevent Cybersquatting
In an interview in today’s San Francisco Chronicle (“Rod Beckstrom, CEO of ICANN, talks about new domain names“), the CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers stated that ICANN...
View ArticleGingrich Domain is Newtered – But the UDRP Probably Won’t Help
In How to Defeat a Cybersquatter, I wrote about using ICANN’s comparatively quick and inexpensive Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) to defeat cybersquatters. The domain name...
View ArticleURS – ICANN Offers Uniform Rapid Suspension against Cybersquatters
I have written several times about ICANN’s longstanding Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). This post discusses a more recent way to thwart some cybersquatters, namely, URS – Uniform...
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