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HitchSwitch: The name of the game

By AWA | Posted on June 5, 2018

Attorney by trade Jake Wolff trusted his gut feeling and quit his day job to start his own business helping newlyweds changing their name Deriving from New York City, Jake today lives in New Jersey with his wife and two kids. “It all started when I got married and my wife wanted to change her...

Tags: AWA, change your name, Chinese Trademark Review and Adjudication Board, domain name, EU, Haug Partners LLP, hitchswitch, IP, marriage

Re-registered domain names used for trademark infringements

By AWA | Posted on December 5, 2017

The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has recently released a report based on phase two of a study concerning intellectual property infringements online. In the first phase, a qualitative study was conducted to investigate the different methods used for such infringements. It was followed up by the second phase, a quantitative study, in which...

Tags: domain name, domains, e-commerce, e-shop, EUIPO, Infringement, online, report

Will .Africa be the one digital space for the African continent?

By Marcus Glaad | Posted on April 13, 2017

With the goal of establishing ’Africa in One Space‘, dotAfrica aims to provide a secure and world-class technical infrastructure to leverage the continent’s socio-economic capacity and potential. “The dotAfrica registry will place special emphasis on securing the rights of intellectual property owners, Internet users and the broader African community.” Background The .africa TLD has a...

Tags: africa, domain, domain name, dotafrica

What opportunities and risks come with the new Top Level Domains (TLDs)?

By Marcus Glaad | Posted on February 20, 2017

When ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) launched the new TLD Program, the purpose was to stimulate innovation and competition in the domain- and Internet industry and to give the possibility to own and run a top level domain. ICANN received over 1900 applications for 1400 new top level domains. A total of...

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