Volume VII

Issue : 7: April 9, 2009

• Court Orders Identification of Anonymous Web Posters
• Apple Takes Decision of IP Australia to Federal Court
• First Twitter Libel Suit Filed in Los Angeles
• Google Wins Domain Name Dispute
• Google Faces Trade Mark Trial Over Advertising Program
• TomTom to Pay Microsoft to End Patent Fight

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Google Wins Domain Name Dispute

Google Inc. has emerged victorious in a recent WIPO arbitration and mediation committee decision regarding the domain names “googlehrd.com” and “mygooglemoney.com”. Google argued that these domain names, registered by two India-based companies, Ascio Technologies and Net Jobs, constituted an illegal use of Google’s trade name. Christian Schalk, the sole WIPO panelist assigned to decide both cases, agreed and held that the two Indian companies registered these names in “bad faith” in order to confuse web users. The names were ordered transferred to Google.

For additional information, visit:

http://tinyurl.com/Gogglewins

For a copy of the gogglehrd.com decision, visit:

http:// arbiter. wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2009/d2009-0030.html

For a copy of the mygogglemoney.com decision, visit:

http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2009/d2009-0033.html