Intellectual Property Law

ICANN Unanimously Votes to Change Policy To End Domain Tasting
John Levine has noticed something incredibly important in the latest ICANN Board Meeting minutes. ICANN may make their .20 cent fee for registration non-refundable, subject to both Board approval and registrar approval of this fee...

GNSO Initial Report on Domain Tasting
ICANN recently issued a report on domain tasting which often results in squatting of trademarked domains. it does appear that ICANN is poised to do something about domain tasting. The only questions are when ICANN will act and whether it...

ICANN Tries to Put An End to Domain Tasting and Opens the Door to New gTLDs
It is an exciting time for the development of the Internet, and it has gone almost unnoticed. A number of developments in the domain name world have occurred today. ICANN has paved the way to outlaw domain tasting at its...

Domain Tasting Gone Bad
According to ICANN, domain tasting is defined as ?the monetization practice employed by registrants to use the ad grace period to register domain names in order to test their profitability...

ICAAN Delivers Death Knell to Domain Tasting
ARS Technica reports on the ?end of domain tasting? after the implementation of ICAAN?s most recent excessive cancellation penalty of $6.75 per withdrawn domain name. ICAAN?s report on the results of its new policy can be downloaded here.

Googles Alternative to Domain Tasting
SiliconValley.com (via The Associated Press). Google Cuts Ad Incentives for Domain Name Tasting. Jan. 26, 2008. Last week, we wrote about the “domain tasting” phenomenon and Network Solutions’ poor policy choice to eliminate that fraudulent practice...

Domain Taster's Days Are Numbered: ICANN Marches Forward With Changes to AGP
Internet squatters facing eviction - International Herald Tribune Arbitrators like the World Intellectual Property Organization and the National Arbitration Forum attribute the record number of international trademark disputes last year to domain tasting...

Paxil Lawsuit
Paxil Claims, Lawsuits, and Injuries

Network Solutions and ICANN
allegedly registers searched domain names to prevent others from selling and forces customers to pay expensive fees.

Fayette County School Board
faces sex abuse class action lawsuit

Undetected Sewage Spill
Prichard Water Works and Sewer Board spends $17 million on upgrades and testing.

Racist Voicemail
Stamford Board of Education pays student $37,500 settlement after failing to protect her from racial discrimination.

Utilities Whistleblower
New Jersey Board of Public Utilities agrees to $485,000 fine for setting up a private bank account.

Wrong Bus
Greenbrier County Board of Education agrees to $15,000 negligence settlement after dropping a 5-year-old off at the wrong spot.