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... Respondent was trying to create a risk of confusion with Complainant's trademark and website. Further, it showed that Respondent used the domain name for the purpose of attracting web traffic intended for the website of Complainant, but directing such web traffic to websites offering fashion ... to exploit Complainant's trademark "JACK&JONES", the Panel ordered transfer of the disputed domain name. Aktieselskabet af 21. November 2001 v. Domains By Proxy, Inc./John Fox, WIPO Case No. D2007-1623

... Eric Goldman Solid Host, NL v. NameCheap, Inc., 2:08-cv-05414-MMM-E (C.D. Cal. May 19, 2009) Facts ... Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) claim. The Opinion Who is the Registrant? My understanding of domain name proxy services is that the service acts as the legal registrant, thus supplying its contact information ... inquiry is made more difficult by the fact that NameCheap acted as both the registrar and the proxy service provider. As a registrar, an ACPA claim against NameCheap should be squarely preempted ...

... of secondary meaning considerations, rather than rotely rubber-stamping data that only acts as a proxy for consumer perceptions. The net result is a painful outcome for the plaintiff. As we've seen before (e.g ... advertising claim fails as well. The plaintiff claimed that the headline "Welcome to Philbrickports.com" was false, but because the domain was Philbrickports.com, this headline is unquestionably true. In addition to the factual novelty of the case (the registrar as an ACPA defendant and ...

... Marsha Pechman was the busiest with motions for temporary restraining orders, granting one (Autodesk Inc. v. Open Design Alliance (post here)) and denying one (High- ... (post here). One plaintiff stipulated to a preliminary injunction (American Board of Anesthesiology Inc. v. Liao) (post here). The Western District didn't dispose of a single ... 's default victory to the tune of $610,579 in Dali-USA Inc. v. Domains by Proxy Inc. Most of the other judgments were in the neighborhood of $100,000 or less. ...

... under 17 U.S.C. 504, DISCOUNT VIDEO CENTER INC. believes that it may be beneficial to settle this matter without the need of costly and time-consuming ... URL through it via an HTTP GET request (with the exception of a small number of blacklisted domains and those for content larger than 50MB). Thus, requests to BitTorrent trackers ... URL was Coralized, peers' requests to the tracker were issued via CoralCDN HTTP proxies. Thus, the tracker built up a list of peer addresses of the form (CoralCDN IP : ...

... her own address, in some instances the SMTP service is configured verify the existence of the domain of the alleged sender. The absence of verification within the SMTP protocol (or service configuration) makes ... 06-3391 (C.D. Cal. Feb. 27, 2007) and Facebook, Inc. v. ConnectU LLC, 489 F. Supp. 2d 1087 (N.D ... between for requests from client (the user) seeking resources from other servers on Internet (content). Proxy servers can be used both filtering illegal or inappropriate web content or anonymize ...

... panel issued a transfer decision on December 12 ( http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2006/d2006-1309.html). WIPO received its first UDRP ... Increasingly, service providers are offering Whois privacy services allowing domain name registrations to be made through a proxy registrant, which is often a registrar-related entity. One ... represent 'willful blindness,' representing bad faith under the UDRP (Mobile Communications Services Inc. v. WebReg RN, WIPO Case No. D2005-1304, http://www.wipo ...

... Zynga Game Network, Inc. v. John Does 1-50 United States District Court for N.D. Cal. Case No. 3:09-cv- ... unnamed "John Does" for the time being because they "registered their domain names using the Domain by Proxy privacy protection service, preventing Zynga from accessing the name and ... Infringement - Federal Cybersquatting Regarding the Mark ZYNGA: The complaint alleges that the defendants registered domain names with the bad faith intent to profit from use of the ZYNGA mark. California Statutory ...

... passengers 471 S4992A HANNON -- Provides for education and outreach regarding advance directives, particularly health care proxies, and related forms 470 S4988 DEFRANCISCO -- Provides for document discovery by the party conducting an examination of a ... until November 30, 2009 449 S3814B LITTLE -- Relates to cyber piracy protections and the unlawful registration of domain names 448 S3785 DEFRANCISCO -- Relates to the provision of court facilities for judges of the court of appeals 447 S3670 WINNER ...

... . A - Google's search engine, its advertising system 'AdWords', and related litigation in Member States Google Inc. and Google France SARL (either collectively or individually, as 'Google') allow internet users free access to the ... purpose - indeed, the question itself is misleading. By comparing ads with natural results, the parties assume that natural results are a proxy for 'true' results - that is to say, that they originate from the trade mark proprietors themselves. But they do not. Like the ...