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United States Cracks Down on Websites Selling Counterfeit Goods

Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency confirmed on Monday that it seized 82 domain names belonging to websites that were allegedly trading in pirated and counterfeit goods. The agency claims this is only an intermediate step in a larger ongoing project […]

Facebook: Trials & Tribulations

Vincent Doré is a JD/MBA Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and Schulich School of Business Facebook, whose 500 million users make it the world’s largest social network, is engaged in several intellectual property disputes. While the company has, at times, adopted more defensive stances (see, eg, here and here), it has now started to […]

Senatorial Pursuit – Copyright Infringement Edition

Tiffany Wong is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader from Nevada, is struggling in his bid for re-election against Sharron Angle, a Republican endorsed by the Tea Party Express. Alongside the usual political mudslinging, the two are also embroiled in an intellectual property battle. Angle once had […]

Scotiabank Loses Domain Name Dispute

Zak Muscovitch is the principal of The Muscovitch Law Firm, in Toronto, Canada. He is a veteran domain name lawyer having represented numerous domain name owners from all over the world in disputes and transactions since 1999.   Banking errors always seem to be in favour of the bank, however in this particular case, Scotiabank’s […]

Beat the Cybersquatter as “.co” Domain Names Open Up

Ashlee Froese is an Osgoode Hall alumnus and currently practices intellectual property at the law firm of Keyser Mason Ball LLP. The “.co” domain name has long been a favourite of cybersquatters and typosquatters alike, individuals who profit off the misdirection of online traffic/consumers who intend to visit a specific brand’s online space [for example, […]

Addressing inaccuracies in domain name contact information

Billy Barnes is a JD candidate at the University of Toronto. According to a report commissioned by ICANN, the organization that oversees the domain name system, less than one quarter of domain name ownership records are accurate. Recent statements by the FBI and the UK Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) have drawn upon this report […]

“Confusingly Similar” and Domain Names

Virgil Cojocaru is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School Groovle.com allows a user to adopt one of their custom interfaces or create a ‘website’ with a unique background. This result is then pasted on the Google search screen. Groovle really operates on top of the Google search engine. When one enters a keyword, […]

Location can eat away at the rights of an existing trade-mark

Virgil Cojocaru is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The South African Supreme Court of Appeal ruled on Century City Apartments Property Services CC and the Registrar of Companies and Close Corporations v Century City Property Owners Association. A helpful article on the case can be found at the Adams & Adams website. […]

From 中文.cn to 中文。中国: The Introduction of Internationalized Top-Level-Domains

Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Many thanks to Bijan Soleymani, a M. Eng Candidate at McGill University. [Note: This article includes non-Latin characters (such as Chinese language characters). The ability to view such text will depend on your internet browser settings.] IDNs vs Internationalized TLDS = fully vs partly […]