Trademark Clearinghouse, Brand

Update on ICANN’s New gTLD Program

by Ron Dreben, Dana Gross | Morgan Lewis on 4/25/2013

Brand owners should prepare for Internet expansion in 2013. Despite numerous concerns voiced by governments, law enforcement, brand owners, and businesses, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers...more

Intellectual Property Client Alert: Trademark Clearinghouse Adds to Brand Protections

by Christopher Adams, George Borababy, Deborah Lodge | Patton Boggs LLP on 4/12/2013

Brand owners can now increase protection for their federally-registered trademarks and service marks by registering them with the ICANN Trademark Clearinghouse. The Clearinghouse was set up by the Internet Corporation for...more

New gTLD Trademark Clearinghouse Launches in Anticipation of New Era of Top-Level Web Domains

by Laurie Löben Sels | Duane Morris LLP on 4/3/2013

ICANN, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has taken another step in expanding the number of sanctioned top-level web domains (TLD). Domain extensions such as .nike, .canon and .bank may now join the...more

Protect Your Trademark

by Philip Nulud | Buchalter Nemer on 4/2/2013

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has recently launched the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). ICANN has billed the TMCH as the “most important rights protection mechanism built into ICANN’s new...more

Advertising News & Analysis - March 28, 2013

by Edward Boyle, Emilio W. Cividanes, Michael Hartmere, Stuart P. Ingis, Jeffrey D. Knowles, Jacqueline Levasseur Patt, Michael A. Sartori, Ph.D., Janet F. Satterthwaite | Venable LLP on 4/1/2013

In this issue: - FTC Reopens Comment Period on Proposed Changes to EnergyGuide Labels - Venable’s Advertising Practice Named to Chambers USA Shortlist - Protect Your Brand Against New Top-Level Domain...more

IP Buzz - March 2013

by Venable LLP on 4/1/2013

In this issue: - The Time Is Here: Protecting Your Brands Against New Top-Level Domain Names - Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Supreme Court Holds that the First Sale Doctrine Applies Regardless of Where a...more

Under Construction and Open for Business: New gTLD Trademark Clearinghouse Set to Open March 26

by Judith Harris, Brad Newberg, Gregory Shatan | Reed Smith on 3/28/2013

ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is rushing headlong in its efforts to bring the world a massive expansion in the number of new gTLDs (the part of an Internet address that follows the dot, such...more

Clearinghouse Opens for Protecting Brands on New Top-Level Domains

by Thompson Coburn LLP on 3/28/2013

Within a few months, Internet domain names will explode with the creation of hundreds of new top-level domains worldwide. Brand owners therefore need to prevent their trademarks from getting burned in that explosion. A new...more

Protecting Trade-marks in the New gTLDs

by Mark Edward Davis, Cynthia Mason, Andy Radhakant | Heenan Blaikie LLP on 3/28/2013

Trade-mark owners should act now to protect their trade-mark rights online. As early as April 2013, new top level domain names ("gTLDs") will be available. New domain names will no longer be limited to names ending in...more

ICANN Opens Trademark Clearinghouse as Part of Imminent Domain Name Expansion

by Dayna Frenkel, Richard McKenna | Foley & Lardner LLP on 3/27/2013

With the launch of possibly hundreds of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) on the horizon, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will open on March 26, 2013 the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH), in...more

ICANN To Provide Trademark Clearinghouse to Assist Brand Owners With Protecting Their Rights at the New gTLDS

by Tiffani Otey | Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC on 3/25/2013

ICANN, the international agency responsible for oversight of the domain name system, is scheduled to make an unknown number of new generic Top-Level Domain Names (“New gTLDs”) available in mid-2013. The process to roll out...more

Trademark Alert: Are You Ready For The New gTLDs? The Trademark Clearinghouse Opens March 26

by Sally Abel, Stephen Garcia, Mark Jansen | Fenwick & West LLP on 3/25/2013

The universe of generic top-level domains (gTLDs), currently limited to about a dozen gTLDs such as .com, .net, and .org, will likely explode later this year, as some of the more than 1000 potential new gTLDs are rolled out,...more

New Trademark Clearinghouse an Important Tool for Trademark Owners as New Generic Top-Level Domains Prepare to Launch

by Beth Goldman, Scott Lonardo | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 3/19/2013

Starting on March 26, 2013, there will be an important new tool available to help trademark owners combat unauthorized uses of their trademarks in domain names as more than 1,000 new generic top-level domains (“gTLDs”)...more

New Clearinghouse to Protect Brand Owners against Domain Name Abuse Opens March 26

by Aaron Hendelman, John Slafsky | Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 3/14/2013

In connection with the anticipated launch of new domain name extensions as early as April 2013, brand owners soon will have new procedural protections at their disposal. Beginning on March 26, brand owners can begin...more

Protect Your Brand Against Cybersquatters On The New Internet

by Maria Speth | Jaburg Wilk on 3/7/2013

Registering with the Trademark Clearinghouse begins March 26, 2013 - Maybe you have heard that the Internet is about to drastically change. Maybe you have heard that by the middle of this year, domain names ending in...more

It’s a BRAND New World: Update on ICANN’s Expanded gTLD Program

by Judith Harris, Brad Newberg | Reed Smith on 2/5/2013

You have likely heard by now that the Internet is about to get substantially bigger and more complex, with potentially treacherous consequences for brand owners. This past fall, we wrote a chapter covering this issue in...more

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