Owners of the BUCCELATI trademark sue a Buccelati family member. To oversimplify: you can’t use your own name as a trademark if to do so causes confusion. Some prior posts of the topic here.

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Former business associate of plaintiff tagTrends, starts competing business under the name tagTrends, changes it, then advertises itself as ‘formerly tagTrends.’

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Health services provider WILLINGWAY seeks TRO against Mariel Hemingway for use of THE WILLINGWAY for health-oriented book and kit.

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University of Wyoming sues off-campus housing development named THE POINTE AT UW. What if it were named THE POINT OFF UW? THE POINTE NEAR UW? (doesn’t have quite the same ring).

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The Government Advisory Committee of ICANN has released a communique. ‘Advice to the ICANN Board’ begins on page 3, and makes observations such as ‘singular and plural versions of the string as a TLD could lead to potential consumer confusion.’ Annexes I and II are controversial only because we live in bizarro ICANN world. They…

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Interesting complaint. Registrant for domain names USSEARCHREPORTS.COM and NATURALIZES.COM brings DJ complaint based on a threat of a UDRP made by CitizenHawk, a brand protection company that brings UDRPs on behalf of trademark owners (such as the owners of US SEARCH.COM (sic – there is a space in the registered trademark) and NATURALIZERS.COM. This…

UDRP Complaint re ARAMCOS.NET. The ‘title’ Registrant, as in the person whose name shows up in the authoritative Whois, contacts WIPO and indicates that he (or she) is the victim of identity fraud, and had nothing to do with the registration of the domain name. After being informed of the UDRP, the operator of the…