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WASHINGTON (July 15) — FairWinds Partners, the world’s leading domain name strategy consultancy, has completed the migration of its website from fairwindspartners.com to home.fairwinds. “This...

By Steve Levy So, you’ve discovered an online violation—someone’s snagged a domain name that’s confusingly similar to your brand, or they’re using it in a...

By Steve Levy If you own a trademark, you’re already familiar with the topic of cybersquatting — the practice where someone registers a domain name...

By Steve Levy For those who may be learning about this for the first time, or just want a quick refresher, the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution...

By Steve Levy Those who are familiar with the UDRP know that par. 4(a)(i) requires a brand owner to prove that a disputed “domain name...

By Steve Levy A defense to a UDRP complaint, under par. 4(a)(ii), is for a domain name owner to prove that it has rights or...

By Steve Levy As with general trademark law, the concept of fair use is incorporated into the UDRP in paragraph 4(c)(iii) which says that a...

By Steve Levy I just decided a case that involved the combination of a typosquatted domain name and a separate email hacking incident. While this...

By Steve Levy Does your company have a website and social media posts? Of course, it does. Do you own the copyrights in that content?...

By Steve Levy I only started handling UDRP cases after a couple of decades of dealing with other trademark disputes through a combination of demand...

By Steve Levy On June 3, 2024, I wrote a piece titled Falsified Evidence In The Age Of AI. Well, it’s happened again. Only this...