Author: News Bureau
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Respondent requests domain transfer and personal detail redaction
Securian Financial Group, Inc. is an American company providing financial security to a user base of over 15 million. The company has been serving clients since 1880. The Company has an estimated 64 billion dollars in assets. The Company was concerned about the registration and use of a domain name that infringed upon its right.…
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Who should Thermomix Indonesia go to: Manufacturer or Distributor?
The UDRP process has established a procedure that is able to evaluate the merit of a case through the fulfillment of certain criterias. However, there always remains a window for anomalies. And whenever they arrive the decision related to them becomes some sort of law that would dictate similar cases in the future. A question…
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UK Complainant fails to pull ‘China Arm’
Arm Limited is a company based in the UK. The company produces technology related goods and services and is said to have 180 billion products. The company was worried when a Chinese individual registered the domain name ChinaArm.com. The Complainant has trademarks over the ARM in different countries. The company owns a portfolio of over…
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Partners separate ways, but what about the domain name?
WIPO came across a unique case regarding a domain name where both the parties were former partners. They both separated ways, but domain names between them were causing friction. The case was related to the use of domain names ClickBetter.com and ClickBetter.info. Clickbetter Ltd. was established in October 2012. The company was the joint result…
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Odin inspired Oddin.gg acquires an entity, renames it Jotun.gg
Norse-mythology plays a central character in the pop culture of today, thanks to Marvel’s contribution towards it. I mean who can forget Thor’s entries. It seems that this popular storyverse has now started to percolate into business infrastructure and financial ecosystem as well thanks to the fanboys all across. Oddin.gg is a B2B esports betting…
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Pakistani domainer handed Cecia.com
CECIA is a French company that works in the food processing sector. The company’s name CECIA is an abbreviated form of its full name, i.e., Cabinet d’Etude et de Conseil en Industrie et Agroalimentaire. The company was aggrieved when someone registered and started using the domain name CECIA.com. A complaint was thus filed at WIPO. …
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Man files for UDRP as he couldn’t get family domain
I have seen several RDNH cases where in the garb of UDRP as a parallel way of securing the domain name files a complaint. However, seldom do I engage in legal appeals that fall so spectacularly on their face. Adrianus Theodorus van Dorp had approached the Canadian International Internet Dispute Resolution Centre for the domain…
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Why food company prefers ‘Zero sugar’ over ‘Diet’
Snapple, a major tea and beverage company recently announced the rebranding of one of its popular products. The Company has announced that its product Diet Snapple, would now be packaged and sold as Zero Sugar Snapple. When one reads this change to ‘Zero Sugar’ shift, a thought arises that it is for the better. The…
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A look in Brand Finance’s Media 50 2022 report
Brand Finance, world’s leading brand valuation consultancy has released its Media 50 2022 report. The report discusses the best performing media brands in the year and this year trends reflect the institutional design of the media sphere as well as contemporary alterations to it. Google has retained its spot at the apex position in the…
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PayMaya shortens itself to just Maya
PayMaya is a popular online payment platform in the Philippines. Voyager Innovation, the company behind PayMaya had recently achieved Unicorn status. Following this, PayMaya has also announced its rebranding. The company has shortened its name to just Maya now. The company pointed out that the term ‘Pay’ along with their name limited them to just…
